Combating Kristianity

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Religion is all bunk.
~ Thomas Alva Edison(1847-02-111931-10-18 age:84)
born in Milan, Ohio, USA
died in West Orange, New Jersey, USA.

The great unmentionable evil at the centre of our culture is monotheism. From a
barbaric iron age text known as the Old Testament, three anti-human religions have
evolved — Judaism, Christianity and Islam. These are sky-god religions. They are
literally patriarchal, — God the Omnipotent Father — hence the loathing of
women for 2000 years in those countries afflicted by the
sky-god and his earthly male delegates.
~ Gore Vidal(1925-10-032012-07-30 age:86)

Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion that has ever
infected the world.
~ Voltaire(1694-11-211778-05-30 age:83)
[François Marie d’Arouet Voltaire]
born in Paris, France
died in Paris, France

Kristian Quotations

The best way to explain what I mean by
Kristianity (false Christianity), is to let you read some quotations from famous
Kristians.

I want you to just let a wave of intolerance wash over you. I want you to let a wave of
hatred wash over you. Yes, hate is good… Our goal is a Christian nation. We have
a Biblical duty, we are called by God, to conquer this country. We don’t want
equal time. We don’t want pluralism.
~ Randall Terry(1959-04-25 age:59),
Founder of Operation Rescue
The News-Sentinel, Fort Wayne, Indiana. 1993-08-16

I want to say to all you Scribes, Pharisees, heresy hunters, all of you that are going
around pickin' little bits of doctrinal error out of everybody’s eyes and
dividin' the Body of Christ… get out of God’s way, stop blockin'
God’s bridges, or God’s goin' to shoot you if I don’t… let
Him sort out all this doctrinal doodoo!… I refuse to argue any longer with any
of you out there! Don’t even call me if you want to argue… Get out of my
life! I don’t want to talk to you… I don’t want to see your ugly
face!
~ Paul Crouch(1934-03-29 age:84)
President, Trinity Broadcasting Network

One of the problems with sex education… is that it also strips kids —
especially girls — of their modesty to have every detail of anatomy, physiology
and condom usage made explicit.
~ James Dobson(1936-04-21 age:82),
Focus on the Family

Homosexuals are not monogamous. They want to destroy the institution of marriage. It
will destroy marriage. It will destroy the Earth.
~ James Dobson(1936-04-21 age:82)
Focus on the Family

Overpopulation is destroying the earth, not polyamory. Most species
are not monogamous, just beavers and a few birds. Humans self report that 60% of males are not monogamous and 40% of
females, higher if you count multiple marriages, so there is no need to single out
unmarried gays. People destroy their own marriages. What gay people do on the other
side of town is irrelevant. Why does Dobson want to block homosexuals who desire
monogamy from using the primary tool for ensuring monogamy — marriage?

In every classroom in the state [of California, students are] being taught homosexual
propaganda and these other politically correct, postmodern views.
~ James Dobson(1936-04-21 age:82),
Focus on the Family, recommending that parents remove
their children from California’s public schools.

And the Christian schools are breeding grounds for bigotry, hypocrisy
and ignorance.

In winning a nation to the gospel, the sword as well as the pen must be used. Democracy
is a heresy against God!
~ Rousas John Rushdoony(1916-04-252001-02-08 age:84)
Director of the Rutherford Institute, founder of the Christian Reconstructionists

Jerry Falwell, evangelist

Jerry Falwell, evangelist

Homosexuality is Satan’s diabolical attack upon the family that will not only
have a corrupting influence upon our next generation, but it will also bring down the
wrath of God upon America.
~ Jerry Falwell(1933-08-112007-05-15 age:73)

AIDS (Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome) is not just God’s
punishment for homosexuals; it is God’s punishment for the society that tolerates
homosexuals.
~ Jerry Falwell(1933-08-112007-05-15 age:73)

I do not believe the homosexual community deserves minority status. One’s
misbehavior does not qualify him or her for minority status. Blacks, Hispanics, women,
etc., are God-ordained minorities who do indeed deserve minority status.
~ Jerry Falwell(1933-08-112007-05-15 age:73),
USA Today
Chat, quoted from The Religious Freedom Coalition, The Two faces
of Jerry Falwell

AIDS
is the wrath of a just God against homosexuals. To oppose it would be like an Israelite
jumping in the Red Sea to save one of Pharaoh’s chariotters.
~ Jerry Falwell(1933-08-112007-05-15 age:73)

If you’re not a born-again Christian, you’re a failure as a human being.
~ Jerry Falwell(1933-08-112007-05-15 age:73)

The Bible is the inerrant… word of the living God. It is absolutely infallible,
without error in all matters pertaining to faith and practice, as well as in areas such
as geography, science, history, etc.
~ Jerry Falwell(1933-08-112007-05-15 age:73),
Finding Inner
Peace and Strength More Jerry Falwell

Let us pray it is not so, or if it is, that it will not become widely known.
~ Wife of the Bishop of Exeter
on hearing of Darwin’s theory of the common descent of humans and apes.

Pat Robertson, evangelist

Pat Robertson, evangelist

We have enough votes to run the country. And when the people say, We’ve had enough, we are going to take over.
~ Pat Robertson(1930-03-22 age:88),
speech given to the 1980-04Washington for Jesus rally, quoted from Robert Boston, The
Most Dangerous Man in America, p. 29.

There is no such thing as separation of church and state in the Constitution. It is a
lie of the Left and we are not going to take it anymore.
~ Pat Robertson(1930-03-22 age:88),
address to his American Center for Law and Justice,
November, 1993. Let’s see, now: 'Congress shall make no law respecting an
establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.' How could the
prohibition against Congress making laws respecting an establishment of religion be
anything but the separation of church and state?

Individual Christians are the only ones really — and Jewish people, those who
trust God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob — are the only ones that are qualified to
have the reign because hopefully, they will be governed by God and submit to Him.
~ Pat Robertson(1930-03-22 age:88),
The 700 Club television program, 1985-01-11, defending his
stance that only Christians and Jews are fit to hold public office.

You say you’re supposed to be nice to the Episcopalians and the Presbyterians and
the Methodists and this, that and the other thing. Nonsense. I don’t have to be
nice to the spirit of the Antichrist. I can love the people who hold false opinions but
I don’t have to be nice to them.
~ Pat Robertson(1930-03-22 age:88),
The 700 Club television program, 1991-01-14.

The feminist agenda is not about equal rights for women. It is about a socialist,
anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill
their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.
~ Pat Robertson(1930-03-22 age:88),
fundraising letter, 1992

Many of those people involved with Adolf Hitler were Satanists, many of them were
homosexuals — the two things seem to go together.
~ Pat Robertson(1930-03-22 age:88),
The 700 Club television program, 1993-01-21, ignoring the facts that the Nazis killed homosexuals as
ruthlessly as they did Jews and that Satanism emerged with Anton Szandor LaVey.

I think 'one man, one vote,' just unrestricted democracy, would not be wise.
There needs to be some kind of protection for the minority which the white people
represent now, a minority and they need and have a right to demand a protection of
their rights.
~ Pat Robertson(1930-03-22 age:88),
The 700 Club television program, 1992-04-18, suggesting that South African white people’s votes
ought to count more than other votes because they are in the minority.

There once was a time when all people believed in God and the church
ruled. This time was called the Dark Ages.
~ Richard Lederer(1938-05-26 age:79)

Martin Luther, founder of protestantism

Martin Luther, founder of protestantism

Stab, smite, throttle, slay these rabid mad dogs without mercy, with a good conscience
to the last ounce of strength, for nothing can be more poisonous, hurtful or devilish
than a rebel. He that shall be slain on the side of law and order is a true martyr
before God, earning eternal bliss; he that perishes on the side of rebellion is doomed
eternally to hell. Such times are these that a prince shall win heaven by bloodshed
sooner than others by prayer…
~ Martin Luther(1483-11-101546-02-18 age:62)
(not all
Kristians are modern)

Reason is the enemy of faith.
~ Martin Luther(1483-11-101546-02-18 age:62)

Be on your guard against the Jews, knowing that wherever they have their synagogues,
nothing is found but a den of devils… they know they are steeped in manifest
vices mently, just as the devils themselves do. And where you
see or hear a Jew teaching, remember that you are hearing nothing but a venomous
basilisk who poisons and kills people… The devil with all his angels has taken
possession of this people… Jews, Turks, papists, radicals abound everywhere. All
of them claim to be the church and God’s people in accord with their conceit and
boast, regardless of the one true faith…
~ Martin Luther(1483-11-101546-02-18 age:62)

What harm would it do, if a man told a good strong lie for the sake of the good and for
the Christian church… a lie out of necessity, a useful lie, a helpful lie, such
lies would not be against God, he would accept them.
~ Martin Luther(1483-11-101546-02-18 age:62)

What Is This Essay Up To

I define Kristians as Satanists in Christian clothing. Unfortunately, many people
who think they are Christians are actually Kristians. They are stupid people who have not
stopped to think what they are doing. They have blindly done what they were told. This
essay attempts to scrape Christianity clean of the barnacles of untruth and superstition
that have become attached to it. It attempts to push people toward the deep core of truth
of Christianity. This will look to many people as if it is trying to destroy
Christianity. The truth hurts. This essay is not for the faint of heart. Here are a few
of the goals:

To stop the killing based on religious intolerance.

To stop economic exploitation based on religious bamboozlement.

To discourage superstition.

To encourage speculation to be labeled as such. Religion should have to live up to
the same standards of truth in advertising as any anything else. It should demonstrate
what it claims on the material plane. Otherwise, how are you to tell it from wishful
imagining?

To stop people from people from tormenting each other in the name of religion.

To stop Christians from voting themselves special status above other
religions.

To keep purely Christian notions from being enacted into law. Freedom of religion
also means freedom from religion.

What will be left?

That you should treat others as you yourself would want to be treated.

The importance of love, truth, kindness and non-violence.

Ritual. People like music, candles, incense, ceremonies, history, costumes and
special foods. Ideally everyone would be permitted to share in the rich traditions of
everyone else.

Community.

Techniques to motivate you to get along with your fellow humans.

Hints at how to apprehend the great unspeakable mysteries of life.

Christianity of the TV evangelist is a far cry from the message that Jesus taught
two millennia ago.

In John 14:12 Jesus told his
followers they would do works even greater than his. He did not put himself on a
pedestal. He asked people to look to God, not to him.

In Matthew 16:27 he
explained that you will be judged on your works, not your faith.

In Matthew 25:40 he warned
that the way you treated the least of your brothers would be way you would be judged.

I am surrounded by priests who repeat incessantly that their kingdom is not of this
world and yet they lay their hands on everything they can get.
~ Napoléon
Bonaparte(1769-08-151821-05-05 age:51)

What would Jesus make of a modern televangelist with his emphasis faith
without works, on money, elaborate costumes, religious trinkets and persecution of
homosexuals? I refer to this phony, hypocritical, sermon-on-the-mount-denying, modern
Christianity as Kristianity. A typical Kristian believes that a
fetus has an inviolate and inherent sacred right to life, but that right evaporates on
birth. Not only does the Kristian deny he is his brother’s keeper, he feels a
sacred capitalist duty to take as much as possible from his brother, no matter how little
his brother has.

The Puritans left England for America not because they couldn’t be Puritans in
their mother country, but because they were not allowed to force others to become
Puritans; in the New World, of course, they could and did.
~ Gore Vidal(1925-10-032012-07-30 age:86)

Jesus asks us not to be judgemental and that includes being judgemental of
Kristians. For now, I am going to do my best to be non-judgemental, but I don’t yet
know a way to write this essay without being judgemental. Somebody has to bell this cat.

There is only one truth and a million falsehoods. The only thing mankind can unify
around are the common truths. That means everything else will have to go.

Most of what I say also applies to other fundamentalist religions such as Islam.
However, I focus on Christianity, since the reader is more likely to be Christian than
Muslim and it is best to focus on one’s own flaws that those of another. Islam has
already been over-vilified, mostly with false accusations.

Why Combat Kristianity?

Dear Jesus
Please save me from your followers.
~ Anonymous

When I say combat Kristianity I primarily mean combat the
narrow-mindedness, intolerance and cruelty done in the name of Christ. But I also mean,
combat the phony magic and superstition. I don’t mean combat Jesus’s
love-everyone philosophy. My complaint is not with Christ, it is with those of his
followers who are intolerant. Christians are non-judgemental and Kristians are
judgemental. You can fight schizophrenia because you love schizophrenics. You can fight
Kristianity because you love Kristians and want to seem them freed from their nightmare
and introduced to true Christianity. My goal is to convert Kristians to either ethical
atheism or, failing that, to true Christianity.

Jesus said You are your brothers’ keeper. He urged
people to live a simple lifestyle that puts minimal stress on the environment. I fully
agree. I don’t want to promote selfish or Satanic behaviour. Whether we should
discourage Kristianity has nothing whatever to do with whether God exists. I tackle that
in an essays on god and the real god. The Kristian description of God is bogus. It is a
composite of the wishful thinking of a motley collection of old men, with nothing divine
about it at all. It is a con, possibly motivated with good intentions, but nevertheless a
con. There many unkind things about Kristians in this essay. Obviously these remarks
don’t apply to Christians, but they do apply to the many Kristians, the ones who
meddle in the affairs of non-Kristians. However, all Christians
deliberately believe an improbable story, mainly because doing so makes them feel warm
and fuzzy, not because there is much evidence for it. That is not particularly noble.

People are often quite puzzled why I would combat Kristianity. I lead a relatively
ethical life. I spend a lot of time writing about ethics. Why would I so vehemently
oppose Kristianity?

When a con artist tricks a mark with a phony penis enlargement cure, a phony weight
loss pill or even a phony investment, he usually only manages to rip each victim off
only once. Christian con artists, particularly the TV evangelists and faith healers, on
the other hand, take their marks over and over throughout their lives. Further they
prey on the weakest and poorest members of society.

An secular con artist merely relieves his marks of money. Christian con artists do
that and also every imaginable form of evil, including suppressing scientific truth,
destruction of the environment, justifying genocide, justifying economic exploitation,
justifying war, persecuting gays, motivating theft…

What does a body do when someone they love dies? They indulge in wishful thinking.
They make up a pathetic story that they are not really dead, then try to sell it to
others, to shore up the fantasy. It does not matter they have not a stick of evidence
for this fantasy. What does a body do when they wants to kill someone and steal their
land? They indulge in a grandiose fantasy, that they are God’s chosen one and as
such they have a right to take anyone else’s life and property. What does a body
do when he wants to plunder, rape and kill wantonly? He indulges in wishful thinking
that God wants him to do this for his country, so that makes it all ok. He convinces
himself his victims are not really dead, so that too makes it even more ok. What does a
body do when he notices he is aging and those around him are dying. He indulges in
fantasy that a God will severely punish anyone who checks out early. So he happily
tortures those terminally ill, forcing them to live on and on and on no matter how bad
the pain, congratulating himself like some medieval inquisitor for his mercy. He
indulges in wishful thinking that something indescribably wonderful awaits only him,
and a few of kind, after death. The push to eliminate religion is the attempt to
release the world from wishful thinking. It is one of the many forms of untruth.

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth
become error because nobody sees it.
~ Mahatma Gandhi(1869-10-021948-01-30 age:78)

Kristians in the US military use harassment and violence to force Kristianity on
non-Christian soldiers. Further, these hypocrites use forced group Kristian prayer to
salve the consciences of military serial killers to persuade them their atrocities are
morally justified.

A vitamin A capsule, costing $0.02, will overnight
cure a child in the third world of blindness. Another, every six months, will keep it
at bay and also give substantial protection against other diseases. Even the poorest
Christian could single-handedly afford to bring sight to more people than Jesus
reputedly healed, but instead they choose to send these blind children useless
bibles.

Kristianity is essentially a lie used to trick others into behaving a certain way.
I object to this on three grounds:

It is not only untrue, it is a lie.

It leads people to behave even worse than if they did not believe the lie. In
other words, the lie is poorly crafted and maintained and used for all manner of
ulterior motives, such as persuading people to wage war or persuading people to
allow sexual access to their children.

It’s not that religious people choose to do bad things more often —
indeed, they are probably more likely to get involved in charitable activities.
Maybe it’s just that when they talk about transforming people’s
lives, they don’t think in terms of big state-run systems — and if
you don’t, lots of people fall through the cracks. Whereas the godless,
all alone under the empty sky, decide that they must band together and help one
another through large amounts of social spending because nobody else is going
to do it for them. Or maybe there is some other reason entirely, but the
numbers don’t lie: The more religious a country is, the worse people
behave in their private lives. Thank God they didn’t do a survey on the
correlation between strong religious belief and war.
~ Gwynne Dyer(1943-04-17 age:75)Does
Religion do More Harm Than Good?

It morally cripples people. They don’t learn the real
reasons why you should behave well. It builds moral principles on sand.

Kristianity was a parochial, jingoistic, petty religion created by a backward
desert tribe who were so bloated with pride, that they imagined themselves God’s
chosen people with right to steal, rape, plunder and murder people of other peoples.
Only through the bizarre auspices of Emperor Constantine, did this intensely regional
religion get foist on the entire planet. It is not a world class religion.

According to CTV (Canadian Television network) news 2008-04-15 the Catholic
Church priests have sexually abused more than 5 million children and the bishops
collectively helped in the coverup. That does not even count the children molested by
protestant clergy. Priests abuse their power of fear of after death punishment to
coerce adults and children into sexual acts and to extort money.

I don’t care about the pollitics, the fact of the
matter is, these crazy fuckinterriosts think they have to kill us to go to heaven and get their
virgin’s. We need to bury all these asshose’s in pigskin!! And for that pussy that made that comment
about the christians, I am a Christian and I will kick
your ass if you threaten my family, how do you like me now you fuckin pussy!! God Bless America and to Hell with terriosts!!
~ Tony Joe
proudly ignorant American Kristian, posting on the Blog To Discuss The Iraq War
.

American Kristians use their religion to justify killing any Muslim,
man, woman or child. This is a virtue in their eyes. Yet when a Muslim kills an
American soldier who illegally invaded their country unprovoked, it is the ultimate
crime. Kristianity teaches contempt for logic. No wonder because even the god they
worship behaves partially, irrationally
and abominably.

Kristians are encroaching on the airwaves. They used to confine themselves to
Sunday broadcasts, now they buy up time 24/7 so there are nearly always at least three
Kristian broadcasts going on at once. They lie repeatedly as Kristians do and con
money out of the viewers. This lets them buy up still more air time. They masquerade
their shows as talk shows, unsolved mystery shows, counseling shows, science shows,
news broadcasts, medical shows and pretty well every genre. The gullible public hear
the Kristian lies repeated so many times, never questioned and they fall for the con.
What is even worse, the stations become corrupt from all that ad money and allow
Kristian propaganda to permeate legitimate news shows. Because they are Kristians they
can make any false advertising claims they want, say slanderous outrageous crap and no
one dares say boo. What really galls me is part of my cable bill each month goes to
support this crap. I have no option to cut that funding off.

Pastor Robbin Leeroy Harper was eventually convicted of multiple child rapes and
molestations after many years of his flock looking the other way because they were
intimidated by the bogus moral authority of the Christian church. For years, he used
his religious authority to bully and terrify his flock, even meddling to the agree of
arranging their marriages.

Kristians are so presumptuous. The refuse to see that making
your peace with God has nothing at all to do with Kristianity. They mean
submitting to the authority of meddling, fallible, human, Kristian
con men. Kristianity is only one of 60,000 possible
religions. They worship a malevolent, petty spirit, hardly worthy of the title
god.

Kristianity is based on myth and lies. It is a giant con. If you are a Kristian,
this is not likely how you currently see your religion. In my series of essays, I will
explain how you can know with complete certainty that this is so. Over the centuries,
the Kristian con has been kept alive by three sorts of people:

Outright charlatans who enriched themselves by conning people with the lie that
giving them money would curry favour with god.

Ignorant people who unquestioning accepted whatever they were told by their
betters.

Patronising people who felt it was OK to lie to people to make them
behave.

Imagine living with a primitive tribe of people who worshiped an evil sky god.
They impose terrible suffering on each other thinking this is necessary to placate the
sky god. They are completely superstitious with no appreciation of logic, science,
reason or common sense. Living with Kristians is little different. They mindlessly
torment homosexuals to please their god. They torment the terminally ill, forcing them
to stay alive to suffer as long and deeply as possible. They do all in their power to
hurt young women who get pregnant. Instead of helping people out of drug addiction,
they spend billions to keep them trapped. They spit on the homeless and torment them by
confiscating even their meager belongings. They make war on tiny harmless nations
stealing their resources and imagine their god not only approves but commanded this
piracy. What is perhaps most infuriating is the they feel profoundly virtuous about
their evil deeds and look down their noses at everyone else. They are not only ignorant
fools, they are proud of it. There is nothing to recommend either evil sky god except
that believers will treat you better if you pretend to believe too. Religion thus
becomes the ultimate hypocrisy.

Kristians teach a silly and primitive form of morality, namely that you should
treat your fellows well only to avoid being tortured eternally after death by devils.
When a Kristian realises what utter BS this is, suddenly there is no reason to behave
well. It is much better to tell children the truth.

Kristians love to brag that God spoke to me or
Jesus spoke to me. How the hell would they know what God or
Jesus sounds like? All they heard was a weird voice in their head. How do they know
they were not just talking to themselves? People can easily imagine the voices of
parents or loved ones and what they would say, so why not a stranger? How do they know
that voice was not Satan himself tempting them to puff themselves up with pride that
God would single them out like some prophet of old? 5:37
makes it clear God does not talk to people. Normally we put people in mental
hospitals when they obey voices only they can hear. But when they label the voice God
or Jesus, we give them a get-out-of-hospital-free card since the delusion is so
common. Hearing voices is a sign of mental illness, not a holy anointing. However,
most of the time all they are doing is bluffing — you had better do as I say
because God told me this personally. It is just another trick in the con man’s
bag.

I have such contempt for Kristian athletes who thank God for helping them or their
team to defeat a rival, as if God would be so petty and so partial to interfere in
something so trivial as a football game. I feel the same way about ditzy women who win
singing or beauty contests, claiming somehow God rigged the contest in their favour.
The ego behind such a claim is mind boggling.

Benny Hinn, evangelist

Benny Hinn, evangelist

There is a huge of amount of good will in the
world. This naturally would go toward such activities as helping those less fortunate
both at home and abroad, visiting the sick, caring for the elderly, helping those
hurt in natural disasters, funding research on disease, adult education, caring for
the environment… The list is endless. However, Kristians hijack this good
will. The money goes instead to fund the lavish lifestyles of the televangelists like
Benny Hinn. Kristians trick people into imagining that feel-good activities like
praying, singing, testifying and proselytising are actually doing somebody a service.
Kristianity seduces people into substituting these sham virtues for the real thing,
and imagining themselves superior to those who actually do feed the hungry and clothe
the naked as Jesus commanded.

Not everyone that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of
heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.
~ Matthew 7:21

Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fullness of bread and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.
~ Ezekiel 16:49

Local churches provide services to the community. The church hall might be used for
the Boy Scouts. They might feed or house the homeless at certain times of year. They
may do domestic counseling. They provide a safe place to socialise. The congregation
sometimes gets together to help out members of the community stricken by tragedy. They
sometimes advocate for those too weak or poor to advocate for themselves. They help the
people organise around community issues. They organise people on issues such as
abortion, gay rights, black rights, ending hunger… They also do many negative
things that I have outlined elsewhere. However, televangelists, in contrast, are purely
parasitical. All they do is con the public into sending them money, falsely promising
healing, abundance, after death luxury accommodation etc. They give back nothing other
than a bit of spectacle and musical entertainment. They use all manner of trickery to
con the gullible out of their meagre savings. Televangelists are partly responsible for
the declining attendance at local churches. People are lazy and stay home and watch
TV and imagine they have done their duty. The TV con men are willing to promote that
illusion.

Kristians always shout to give the illusion of conviction and to disguise the fact
their words are either unimportant, tedious, untrue or nonsensical. Hitler did the same
thing.

I have no problem with Kristian science fiction, such as Heaven Can
Wait, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Twice in a Lifetime,
It’s a Wonderful Life, Defending Your Life or
Bedazzled. These are usually morality tales told in an entertaining way.
They don’t pretend to be literal truth. In contrast, preachers pretend every word
they utter is incontestable truth, even patently whacko things like utter certainty God
will strike with lightning, or send category 6 hurricanes if the congregation
don’t part with sufficient funds or pass some law to harass gay people. They
perform fake healings on shills and silly old women
desperate for attention who have little wrong with them. They fake messages direct from
the almighty. You wonder who would be stupid enough to fall for such transparent and
ancient cons, cons that were obvious even to the audiences of the snake oil salesmen.
The illusions involved are nowhere near the quality of today’s stage magicians
like David Copperfield and Criss Angel. Yet there are hundreds of millions desperate
enough or brainwashed enough to fall for them. These preachers are literally mind
parasites, who prey on the vulnerable. In the animal kingdom, the Polyergus red queen
ant invades a colony of another ant species and tricks them into treating her as the
true queen. Through clever manipulation of pheromones (scent communication chemicals)
she tricks the entire colony into slavery, raising her brood and caring for them. Her
own brood are degenerate and cannot even care for themselves. That is not that
outrageous a metaphor for how a preacher sponges off the body politic.

Kristians are bloody liars, endlessly repeating their lies on TV and radio and from
the pulpit, as if by repeating the lies often enough they might become true. Every
study has shown prayer is utterly ineffective, but they keep lying that it is
absolutely fail proof. Nearly every scientific assertion in the bible turned out to be
false, but Kristians pretend it is 100% reliable. Kristians
promise riches, healing and whatever else they think will sell, if you but give them
money. These lies need to be combated like any other false information does, e.g. that
tobacco is harmless or that garlic will cure AIDS.
We won’t put up with this sort of chicanery and false claims from drug makers.
Why do we tolerate it from Kristians? Some of them raise money to helping starving
Africans and keep most of it for themselves and they are never prosecuted for fraud.
Freedom of religion as been abused to permit flagrant con games to be perpetrated on
the public without any constraint.

Kristians, realising there is no evidence for their beliefs and plenty to disprove
them, resort to an infuriatingly dishonest argument. They not only move the goalposts,
they invert them. They assert atheists are cold and unfeeling (without evidence, as
usual). They claim Kristian gullibility as a virtue, that the Kristian ability to believe nonsense is a special skill. Of course, this
skill would also let them believe urban legends,
superstitions, paranoid delusions, myths, rumours, not to mention the risen Elvis.

When Christians argue, they try to claim any evidence that the scientific view is
not 100% accurate or complete, is absolute proof of their
cockeyed grumpy grandfather god for which they present no evidence whatsoever. That is
like saying because you can’t account for every gift under every tree, that means
there is thus absolute proof that an obese Santa Claus shimmies down every nominally
Christian chimney on the planet on Christmas eve leaving gifts proportional to the
wealth of the parents.

In I John 2:7-12 and
again in II John 1:5
Jesus gives the new old commandment: Love everyone
unconditionally. Kristians give the Old Testament precedence over
Jesus’s prime directive.

The arrogance of Christians galls me. They freely admit that every one of the
10,000 plus religions but theirs is arrant nonsense. On what grounds to they imagine
only they got it right, even though their religion is even more
preposterous than average and even though their religion borrows brazenly from a dozen
others? They are so outrageously conceited and without any evidence to
justify it. They back their claims with nothing but repeated assertion and double talk.
What makes their claim of unique superiority even more outrageous, is they pride
themselves in not studying any of the alternatives.

Christians maliciously try to claim that natural selection is pure chance. Most are
wilfully ignorant. But even the ones who do understand the difference still try to
bamboozle others with that monstrous straw man lie e.g. equating natural selection with
a hurricane in a junkyard producing a Boeing 707.

In interests of fairness, the stork theory of baby creation will be taught
alongside Christian creationism in American science classes.

There is a tribe in the Philippines that torture pigs by sticking wooden spears
into them. The more the pig squeals supposedly the more spirits enter the pig and bring
good fortune on the village. The longer the pig squeals before it dies, supposedly the
more good fortune. Why on earth would spirits want to enter a suffering pig? What
evidence is there that this sacrificial magic works? What evidence is there than any
sacrificial magic works? The only example I can think of is painlessly sacrificing the
best seeds to the gods to bring benefit. Sacrifice is
usually an excuse for sadism. Kristianity focuses on of pointless sacrifice and pain.

I think it’s interesting how people act on their beliefs. A lot of
Christians, for instance, wear crosses around their necks. Nice sentiment, but do
you think when Jesus comes back, he’s really going to want to look at a
cross?
~ Bill Hicks(1961-12-161994-02-26 age:32)

Kristianity is a S&M/guilt trip. Christianity is a love trip.

Deuteronomy 23:19
and many other places forbid usury — accepting interest on a loan. This is an
unusual commandment to follow in the modern age, though it was strictly adhered to in
the middle ages. Only non-Christians could offer interest-style loans. Why is usury
so bad? It creates an instability. The rich get richer and the poor get poorer.
Kristians ignore this important commandment.

No one in their right mind would counsel solving your personal and ethical problems
by consulting an Afghan sheep herder who augured by examining the entrails of a dead
goat. Yet Kristians demand we do something even sillier, namely consult the myths of
illiterate shepherds who have been dead for 4000 years, who knew utterly nothing of
modern life.

Kristians care more about the dead than the living. They are far more concerned
about what happens to corpses than living people. They feel duty bound to obey the
dead, even though the dead do not care or create consequences.

Kristians miss the entire point of Christianity. It is a metaphor
to guide you in spiritual growth. Kristians ignore the deep meaning. The wisdom
Christianity contains was borrowed from dozens of predecessor religions. Kristians use
Christianity to keep themselves in a state of spiritual stupor.

Kristians claim to know with absolute certainty when in actuality they are utterly
clueless. They pretend to have solid evidence when in fact they have nothing to back
them up at all, just a gut feeling based on childhood indoctrination and an ancient
book of myths, no different from any other ancient book of fanciful myths. They made it
all up, the same as every other religion. They have no evidence and they are wilfully
ignorant of the mountains of evidence that debunks their preposterous claims. Further,
they dishonestly distort the evidence against their claims. Kristians claim their
religion is absolute truth when in fact it in founded on a work of fiction and defended
with lies and deception. It is just preposterous as the founding a religion on the
science fiction novels of L. Ron Hubbard.

The Bible conflicts with what we know to be true in medicine, astronomy,
psychiatry, physics, chemistry, biology, parasitology, criminology, geology…
Even if you give the Bible extreme latitude as only metaphorical, it is still wrong. It
represented the best thinking of people two millennia ago. Precious little of what it
had to say is still relevant. Ironically, a book designed to guide people to a more
moral life is now leading them to hatred, intolerance and foolishness. People confuse
God and the Bible. God is a truth that lives in your heart. The Bible is just a book to
help you find that truth.

The central ceremony of Christianity involves ritual cannibalism, It is done very
daintily on white linen, but still the idea is barbaric.

Catholic and Southern Baptists continue to encourage prejudice against women. They
refuse to allow women to take part in the leadership of the church. Women were chattels
in Biblical times and Kristians want to return to those times.

Enough of this silliness! Kristians are like bratty children who make some silly
assertion then stick to it no matter what, just to annoy you. Kristian assertions are
so absurd, they must be pulling your leg, but they never give up and
never admit they were just trying to piss you off.

When the King James Bible was written, it was written in deliberately archaic
language, even for the time, in order to trick people into thinking these were truly
the words of an ancient God.

Kristianity is a camouflage that criminals of every description use to fool people
into trusting them. Kristianity is at its very core a giant con. Priests since time
immemorial have tricked and extorted people into tithing to them and handing over
political power.

Kristians take great pleasure in tormenting gays, treating them as second class
citizens. In the past they did the same with blacks, using the bible to justify their
petty snobbery. What is so galling is the hypocrisy. They pretend to do this in the
name of love and good will. They hate fun, love and kindness. They despise people who
enjoy their lives. They want everyone to lead lives as cramped and miserable as theirs.
Think of John Ashcroft and his clothing the statues and refusal to dance. Kristian
argue that not only should homosexuals be forced to be celibate as punishment for being
born gay, but that Kristians should treat gays as second class citizens and make their
lives miserable whether they are celibate or not. Yet they hypocritically claim this
stance is consistent with the Gandhian notion of hate the sin and love the sinner. They
enjoy using gays as scapegoats to vent their petty venality.

There may be a God, but the Kristian description of the creator of the universe is
not correct. See the two essays The Real God
and Is there A God?. Kristians are spreading
slander about the creator of the universe. The Old Testament depicts Him as a petty,
incompetent buffoon. The Qur’an has a somewhat better description, but no mere words can
possibly do God justice.

My essential beef with Kristianity is its dishonesty. It presents as absolute fact
statements that are mere speculation backed by nothing more substantial that a deep gut
feeling that they must be true. Kristianity bandies the word truth around as
if it had an exclusive hold on it, but it is utterly careless about the usual rules of
evidence. There is far more evidence for alien abduction than for even the existence of
Jesus, much less the claimed resurrection from the dead. if Jesus really were so
amazing, how come nobody bothered to write down anything he said while he was alive? If
three Kings proclaimed him the Messiah at birth, why was he raised has a humble
carpenter? How come his followers did not even bother to protect his birth, death and
resurrection places as holy shrines? How come there is no secular record of him? It
sounds like the story was ahem, enhanced considerably after his death for
better sales appeal. Christians have only the flimsiest evidence for their beliefs, so
they bluster and bluff, claiming infallibility and absolute truth. They have been shown
time and time again to be simply wrong. Being wrong is forgivable; claiming exclusive
access to absolute truth is delusional.

The debating tactics of Kristians are based on lying and deception. One of the
frequent tricks they use is falsely claiming famous people like Einstein believed in
their God. Yet Einstein made in very clear he did not. He suffered great opprobrium in
his time for expressing his atheism.

It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is
being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal god and I have never
denied this, but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be
called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world
so far as our science can reveal it.
~ Albert Einstein(1879-03-141955-04-18 age:76)

Jesus harped on three themes:

Don’t chase wealth.

Look after the poor.

Don’t judge or seek revenge.

Yet consider a Kristian like George W. Bush. He totally ignores Jesus’s
three biggies, yet considers himself pious man. Exposure to Kristianity seems to make
people immune to Jesus’s message. They imagine they have already heard and
absorbed it, when they are the ones most in need of it.

Here is just one example of scientific dishonesty Kristians resort to in order to
sell their Bible stories. To demonstrate the feasibility of the story that 7 trumpets
brought down the 20 foot thick walls of the city of Jericho, they built a wall of
bricks and subjected it to over 20,000 watts of acoustic
bombardment. Since the wall had not even set, predictably it collapsed. Of course, the
containing room of 15.24 cm(6 in)
of concrete did not. However, the makers of Mysteries of The Bible failed to point that
out. Even that level of sound will kill people.

We don’t mind an arrogant genius like Pierre Trudeau who won’t suffer
fools gladly, however, an arrogant twit is insufferable. Fundamentalist Kristians
infuriating. Why? They make the assertion that the Bible is the literal word of God.
Then they insult everyone’s intelligence by offering not a shred of evidence to
support such a fantastic claim. As Carl Sagan said: Extraordinary
claims require extraordinary proofs. Since they are the ones making such an
extraordinary claim, the burden of proof should be on them. Yet fundamentalists think
they are exempt from the customary rules of evidence. They don’t have even the
most rudimentary understanding of what evidence is. They attempt to circularly prove
the truth of the Bible by quoting parts of it that proclaim its truth. Even when you
show them over and over how the Bible could not possibly the literal word of God, (e.g.
my Noah essay), they refuse to see and make up
the silliest excuses to hold onto their delusion. They want it to be true so it is
true.

Beware the man of one book.
~ Roman proverb

Fundamentalist Kristians make the assertion that the Bible is the literal word of
God. Then they demand others accept that unlikely notion as Absolute
Truth, purely on blind faith. That God is the author of the Bible is unlikely
because surely God would have written a much better book than the Bible with its
factual errors, inconsistencies, vagueness, rambling, psychotic advice and irrelevancy. Labeling it
100% God’s work is blasphemy. With the faith
non-argument, (just have faith it is the 100% word of God),
you could equally well assert that Dr. Seuss’s The Cat In The Hat
was the literal word of God. In contrast, Islam offers some weak proof that the
Qur’an is
the literal word of God, namely that the poetry of the Qur’an
is the best ever written in Arabic, ostensibly beyond all possible human skill. The
Qur’an
too blasphemes Allah. No written words could do otherwise.

Kristians such as Jerry Falwell knowingly misrepresent the theory of evolution to
the public. Their lies have approximately half the population of the US rejecting the
theory. Even after being repeatedly corrected, Falwell continues to assert that
evolution is a random process akin to throwing the parts of watch in the air and having
them assemble themselves into a watch. Natural selection, the force that does the
shaping, is not in the least random. Its mindless, relentless push to perfection is
what gives the illusion of a designer. Random mutation just provides raw fodder of the
selection process. You could think of the process of the natural selection as like a
primitive spell checker a child might use. It points out the mistakes but does not
correct them. It is up to the child to randomly try new spellings until they get it
right. Out of this process, with sufficient patience, can come perfectly spelt papers,
far beyond the powers of an unaided child.

The majority of Americans believe a god will reward them after death with eternal
infinite bliss and reunion with loved ones including pets. There is not a stick of
evidence to support this. Americans swallow this crap from endlessly repeating it to
each other and absurdly optimistic wishful thinking. What makes this belief even more
preposterous is these Americans are the greediest, most callous people on earth.
According to their own bible, they are doomed, certainly not the apple of their
god’s eye.

Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fullness of bread and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.
~ Ezekiel 16:49

The world is so warped by the insane logic of Kristians that people can avoid
mandatory vaccination only for irrational religious objections, but not for rational
medical concerns.

Kristians such as Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson con people into handing over
control of their lives and income to them, by claiming God speaks specifically to them,
and hence that they should be treated with almost as much respect as the Bible itself.

The secret is surrender. Commitment to Christ involves surrender of the intellect,
the emotions and the will — the total person.
~ Bill Bright(1921-10-192003-07-19 age:81),
Jesus and the Intellectual

So the religious leaders of the planet pander to this hunger, knowingly offering
false certainty. Each group claims an exclusive hold on absolute truth. Yet at most one
can be correct. This means at least 99.99% of them are offering bullshit. Why do we
offer such reverence to a pack of liars?

The world longs for authority, finality and conclusiveness. It is weary of
theological floundering and uncertainty. Belief exhilarates the human spirit; doubt
depresses.
~ Billy Graham(1918-11-07 age:99)

Kristians are so utterly sure their particular sect is the very best possible, even
though they deliberately shield themselves from exposure to anything else. It is
intellectually dishonest to pretend you know more than you really do.

Kristianity causes a form of brain damage that affects taste. Kristians become
attracted to the tackiest imaginable music, decoration, books, TV, greeting cards and
inspirational messages. Watching someone go Kristian is like losing them to
Alzheimer’s’.

Kristians have effectively brainwashed everyone into thinking that almost
anything if done with a religious motivation must not be interfered
with. This includes child abuse, self mutilation, exposing children to poisonous
snakes, brainwashing, disrupting the funerals of homosexuals and, of course, income tax
evasion (which they have made legal for them alone, not for groups of atheists).
Freedom of religion means Kristians have a perfect right to make fools of themselves.
However, they should be prevented from harming others, including their children, in the
process.

The Vatican during WWII (World War II) lifted not a finger to help the Jews. They could have
threatened to excommunicate Catholics who engaged in those murders. After the war, they
helped Nazi war criminals to escape. Then they got into the business of laundering
money for the Mafia. The Vatican cons poor peasants in the third world to pay for the
extravagance and opulence of St. Peter’s Basilica.

Kristians are obviously aware that not everyone agrees with them and that they
can’t provide much evidence for their beliefs. In other words, they
know they are basing their lives on speculation and gut instinct.
Obviously, even Kristians have plenty of experimental evidence that loving your enemies
and treating others kindly does work. God’s creation speaks to
man in a million ways besides books. These are much easier to read that ancient texts.
Why do Kristians insist on closing their eyes to God’s clearest messages? Why do
they refuse to see the awe in Quantum Physics? The physicist at least tries to learn
how God thinks. I suspect the reason is the Kristians, too suspect their security
blanket is a sham and want to shore up their belief in its magic by talking others
into believing in it.

Childhood brainwashing makes Kristians so dense they cannot for the life of them
see the difference between rejecting the divinity and rejecting the Kristian
description of the divinity. It never even occurs to them their description is
largely wrong.

Christianity teaches gullibility as a virtue. There were not
even any first hand witnesses to any of Jesus’s so-called miracles. Can you
imagine someone today making wild claims like that with only hearsay as evidence,
e.g. someone insisting that you believe a spacecraft landed making a crop circle with
the only evidence that some unnamed person told him it happened 130 years ago. It is utterly absurd. What is even more infuriating is
Christians don’t seem to notice it is absurd, or sometimes that believing the
absurd is a virtue. Once people are softened up to pretend to believe the idiotic,
they can be lead about like pigs with rings in their noses. They are then easy to con
and fleece, the true purpose of Christianity.

Consider what it would take to get you to believe in the existence of the Loch
Ness monster or sasquatches. Would a single second hand account do it? And Loch Ness
monsters and sasquatches would not even be miraculous, just surprising. Why he gaping
inconsistency in standards of evidence?

Have you even tried to debate with a Kristian on anything, e.g. software piracy?
They have only a very limited repertoire of ancient ideas they use as the answer to any
question, like one of those dolls you pull the string on that parrots a pat phrase.
Further, like the Church lady, Kristians see evil everywhere. Kristianity destroys the
ability to have or appreciate a new idea. Ironically, the people who seem to have an
inkling of what Christ was actually trying to say are not even
Christians.

On 2008-11-02, a 13-year old Muslim girl reported she had
been raped. Instead of confronting the alleged culprits, the girl was lead into a
stadium where she was stoned to death for adultery by 50 men. The justification for
that was a book, the Old Testament, claimed, without evidence, to be absolute truth by
Jews, Christians and Muslims. This violent, cruel book of superstition does not deserve
deference, especially among non-believers.

I went to see a lecture by Dr. Charles Taylor the eminent Canadian philosopher and
theologian. Even though he was obviously a respected academic, I decided even he was a
Kristian. He skirted the issue of science as a factor in the decline of Christianity in
his lecture on the rise of secularism over Christianity. He tried to paint scientists
as closed minded in comparison with Kristians. Consider the source of radical new ideas
over the last hundred years. He attacked a straw man accusing evolutionists of claiming
to have a complete handle on the causes of evolution. He has it backwards, Kristians
are the ones claiming absolute and complete truth. Science is always provisional
— the best truth so far. He talked of religious
knowledge when there is no such thing, only religious speculation. If it were
knowledge it would be agreed upon fact, not religion. He was willing to jump through
hoops to read the Bible in such a way it did not conflict with observed fact, e.g. to
conform to Galileo Galilei’s observation that the earth is not the centre of the
universe. He told several stories of people losing their faith. The tragedy was the
pain of disillusionment. He seemed to imply that religion was a balm for that pain and
that avoiding that pain was what was important. Whether the beliefs were true seemed
completely immaterial.

The United States is the richest country on earth and the most Christian. How does
America help the rest of the world when it comes to the AIDS
epidemic? It could save millions of lives by providing sufficient medicine. This would
come out to about $5 a citizen. Do they do it? No.
Instead they sue the South African government for providing its citizens with low cost
generic AIDS
drugs. Yet Kristians are almost infinitely smug about their virtue. See Mécedcins Sans Frontières for
details. They did not go to the aid of many other countries beset by terrorists, but
threatened every country on earth unless they came to America’s aid.

Kristians don’t understand that their values are not universal. They insist
that all children, both Kristian and non-Kristian alike be
indoctrinated with Kristian values. For example, instead of giving teens factual
information about the risks of various activities for passing various sexual diseases
and for pregnancy, or the consequences of either, they want to hide this information
from them. Instead they want all children inculcated with religious
opinions such as all sex outside marriage, even masturbation, is
wicked and abstinence and marriage are the only acceptable
approaches to preventing venereal diseases. The African experience has proved
the futility of this approach, yet the Kristians are slaughtering a generation of
children on the altar of Kristian virtue.

Kristianity is humbug. It is based on untruths. I oppose all untruth even
supposedly harmless ones. I oppose Kristianity on the same grounds that I oppose people
who tell me professional wrestling is real, horoscopes can predict the future, that
$9.00 a minute TV psychics have access to supernatural
information and that the earth is flat. Kristianity makes claims that are demonstrably
not true (as well as other outlandish ones that cannot be either proved or disproved).
The best known miracle, the loaves and the fishes is a lie. The fishes were added
later, to incorporate the fish symbol. The fundamental miracle, Christ rising from the
dead, is even contradicted by the Bible, which states that the people seeing the
supposed risen Christ did not recognise him. There are more people who claim to have
seen the risen Elvis than the risen Christ. Kristianity is built on sand. True religion
does not need magic tricks. The Truth is true.

Kristianity encourages intolerance, particularly toward gays and people of other
faiths.

Of all religions the Christian is without doubt the one which should inspire
tolerance most, although up to now the Christians have been the most intolerant of
all men.
~ Voltaire(1694-11-211778-05-30 age:83)
[François Marie d’Arouet Voltaire]

Kristianity is the number one cause of teenage suicides. Most teen suicides are
gays tormented by Kristian lies about homosexuality or tormented by fellow teens egged
on by their Kristian inspired intolerance for homosexuals.

If an adult tells you about their conversations with an imaginary magic friend, you
might tactfully lead them to seek psychiatric treatment. Yet if a Kristian does the
same thing, we leave them stew in their delusion. Kristianity masks all manner of
mental illness. It is a socially acceptable form of insanity. We look the other way,
afraid to deal with the organised wrath of the Kristian delusionals. Kristians
mistakenly mistake any random internal voice as the voice of God.

Kristianity encourages a careless disregard for the environment. God will clean up
after us (or destroy it all soon). Kristians believe there is no need to limit our
population growth. According to the Kristians we have dominion over all other species — only man has any value. True
Christian consider themselves the good stewards of Planet Earth. Kristianity believes
that God created the entire universe for man’s pleasure alone. No other species
has any value other than to serve man. This is toxic conceit. They treat the universe
is like cosmic toilet paper.

Kristians are not only misinformed about science and physics they lie about them
and insist on teaching those lies to children. If they will lie about something where
they can so easily be caught, how can you trust them with matters you can’t check
up on? Kristianity is just a synonym for insincerity and
hypocrisy. Christ repeatedly asked people to be truthful, yet Kristianity is
fundamentally the art of telling beautiful lies, supposedly for the good of others.

What harm would it do, if a man told a good strong lie for the sake of the good and
for the Christian church… a lie out of necessity, a useful lie, a helpful
lie, such lies would not be against God, he would accept them.
~ Martin Luther(1483-11-101546-02-18 age:62)

Jesus warned people it was unwise to make material goods the center of your life.
See Matthew 6:19. ???? 6:29
However, the Kristian charismatic movement urges centering your life around an
expectation of abundant earthly wealth caused by gaining special favour with God. Even
Christians are alarmed about this heresy.

Kristianity is anti-scientific. It treats gullibility as a virtue. The Bible would
have you believe volcanoes are caused by God’s wrath, nothing whatever to do with
plate tectonics. People still believe this nonsense in the third
millennium. There is almost no evidence to back up Kristianity’s claims so they
make it a virtue to have faith without evidence! There are more people who claim to
have been abducted by an alien, to have seen the risen Elvis or to have seen a
Sasquatch than ever claimed to have seen the risen Jesus. This does not bother the
Kristians. Who needs evidence? They want it to be true, so it is true.
End of argument. Kristianity is self-deceptive, pathetic, childish, wishful thinking.
If Kristians would grow up and get over their fear of death they could let go of these
outlandish fairy tales. I find it so disgusting when otherwise sane people furiously
try to convince themselves that Santa Claus really does live at the North Pole, despite
all evidence to the contrary.

So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of
intelligence.
~ Bertrand Russell(1872-05-181970-02-02 age:97)

Miss America went on TV and says that her faith in God
is what helped her to persevere — not God, her faith
in God. That is no more a demonstration of the existence in God than would her
attestation to her faith in a lucky rabbit’s foot. Making yourself
believe something you don’t truly believe is true, in the hopes of some gain, is
ignoble.

Kristianity is intellectually dishonest. For example, Kristian scientists put out a seeming objective scientific documentary on the
Shroud of Turin, trying to make people believe it was the shroud of Christ. However,
they left out one key detail — the cloth was carbon dated to the middle ages.
They also claimed the red stains were real blood, not mentioning other scientists
concluded they were iron pyrites. These creationists make snake oil salesmen look
honest. They are not simply misguided, they are out and out liars. What is worse they
have the political power to have their nonsense replace the truth in schools. This is
just carrying on the long standing tradition of deception. Saints’ bodies
miraculously did not decay. The church never let on they
mummified them.

The Kristian church is hypocritical. It preaches poverty while its leaders live in
opulence.

Kristianity is paternalistic and meddling. Kristians presume they know better than
everyone else how others should run their lives. They keep trying to enforce their
religious beliefs into law to force everyone to worship in the Kristian way. They
suffer under the delusion, that as Kristians, they have some special divine authority
to tell everyone else what to do, using force if necessary. Moslem fanatics are even
worse in other countries, but in my part of the world, Muslims tend to leave others
alone. Further, Kristians think they have the right to choose everyone else’s
reading material both in print and on the Internet.

Kristian fundamentalists don’t accept the notion of separation of church and
state. They are so sure their particular sect has an exclusive handle on the truth,
they want the state to enforce it on everyone else. They want their prayers
said in schools. They want their religious rules posted in public buildings.
They want their religious restrictions on marriage burned into law. They want
tax dollars to go to Christian organisations. There want their illogical religion-based
rules on abortion and euthanasia legally enforced on everyone. They
argue that historically the church and state were once one and that is how it should
be again.

Though Jesus was keen on the rich helping the poor, the Kristian line is that the
poor deserve their plight and to help the flow of wealth from the lazy poor to the
industrious already wealthy, taxes should be increased for the poor and decreased for
the rich. This is the agenda of the religious right.

Kristians see no possibility of any difference between their book and
God’s eternal commandment. If anyone disagrees with them they are obviously
disagreeing with God. It never occurs to them that their view of God is mostly wrong,
or even that they could be wrong.

Of all the religions I have explored, the ancient Roman temple of Minerva Sulis in
Bath England was by far the most awe-inspiring. Christian churches are tacky as a
dollar store in comparison. How dare Christians claim superiority over every other
religion when the have not even looked at anything other than their native-born
one?

Imagine that I started a new religion, the Whackites. Imagine that I managed to con
10,000 people into signing up and tithing. We Whackites are
recognised as a religion under the income tax act. We whackites have some holy rites.
One is, when dining in public, stripping to our underwear and squirting
Dairyland™ Aerosol Whipping Cream on each others’ heads and on the heads of
any other people present as a holy blessing. It is the holy semen of
the Divine One. Refusing to accept it is rejecting God. If anyone objects, or ridicules
us, we file assault or discrimination charges under the hate crimes act. We demand
others respect our religion.

Religion is just superstition with a strong emotional attachment. Religious
freedom is the right to do silly things, even self-destructive things, without
requiring a logical reason. However, religious freedom should not give one the right
to enforce silly behaviour on others who don’t want to play. Kristians imagine
non-believers must also conform to their superstitions.

Consider the Whackites again. We Whackites believe it is incredibly immoral to
carry any form of ID. We sue in the supreme court for our religious freedom. The
supreme count humours us by ordering all id be banned for all Canadians and replaced by
digital photographs and electronic image identification. If society can humour a
religious nuttiness with minimal accommodation, e.g. Sikh RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police)
officers wearing turbans, then fine, but if it inconveniences others or endangers
them, or costs them significant amounts of money, then I say piss on them. They have
no right to do things that effectively impose their nutty beliefs on others.
Religious freedom should only cover actions that don’t unduly impose on
non-believers. Kristians imagine non-believers should also conform to their
superstitions. I find outrageously silly that I have a better chance arguing in court
based on an irrational religious belief than on a rational one.

I think it is wrong to treat religion as different from any other superstitious or
irrational behaviour. Religion deserves derision and disrespect. Feigning respect
helps hold these erroneous and often cruel or harmful beliefs in place. If a mental
patient told you he liked drinking cups of human blood, you would not encourage this
delusion. Yet when a Christian tells you the same nonsense, most people feign hushed
respect. If a mental patient told you his pet cat tells him what do you, most people
would try to talk him out of this delusion. When a Christian tells you a snake had a
seductive conversation with one of his ancestors, most people listen respectfully
trying hard to disguise their incredulity.

Kristians can’t seem to understand that the only reason they are Kristian is
because their parents spoon fed it into them when they were too young to resist, or
when some evangelist pushed it into them they were under extreme emotional stress. To
people without that experience, Kristianity seems just as silly as the Roman gods. If
Kristianity had some inherent truth, appeal or logic, it would not require brainwashing
to install it.

Sometimes Christian faith exquisitely enhances compassion. Consider Albert
Schweitzer and Mother Theresa. However, Kristianity tends to bleed people dry of
natural mercy and compassion. Kristians want everyone to live by the same mindless
rigid rules agrarian villagers used thousands of years ago. They
demand that people die hideous, painful and degrading deaths from terminal illnesses.
They self-righteously meddle in other people’s lives without understanding. In
the name of virtue they demand that the terminally ill have no recourse to physician
assisted suicide no matter how unbearable life becomes. It is none of their business.
They are not the ones doing the suffering. See the essay on euthanasia for more details and also the
essay on medical
marijuana. Ironically, Christ railed against this rule-based judgementalness more
than any other sin. Still the Kristians block their ears to his words.

The religious right are a political force. They are dangerous when given the reigns
of government. In an age threatened by global warming and overpopulation, it is folly
to entrust handling such problems to people who think the best way to deal with them is
wishful thinking (i.e. prayer), pseudoscience (i.e. creationism) and consulting experts
who lived thousands of years ago before these problems even surfaced (the Bible). These
people are seriously addled by their religious beliefs. The most famous was Interior
Secretary (analogous to the Canadian Environment Minister) James Gaius Watt of the
Reagan era. He said that there was no need to protect the forests because God was going
to restore them in a few years anyway. He resigned in 1983. As of today, God still has
not magically restored the forests. He will guide us to do the work, but he won’t
do all our work for us. James Gaius Watt cited Genesis as justification for schemes to
subdue the Grand Canyon and the national forests.

Man has been an unmitigated disaster on the planet, causing more species to go
extinct than the asteroid that ended the age of the dinosaurs. You would think
Kristians, who scrupulously torment homosexuals to please God, would have some
compunction about vandalising His handiwork, but they do not. American Kristians are
the cheerleaders of global habitat destruction.

Kristians force Kristmas down everyone else’s throat. It has degenerated to a
festival to celebrate gluttony and greed. Kristians admit this, yet they get huffy when
a Jew, atheist or pagan says perhaps public tax money should not be
spent setting up Kristmas decorations. They seem to think the state is not supposed to
promote any one particular religion over the others, unless that religion is
Kristianity. This Kristian assumption of superiority, deserving of special privilege,
is so galling to people of other faiths. Kristians can’t even see they are doing
it. They just assume they are morally superior to everyone else. They never stop to
rethink whether that is really true. They think the modern world is anti-Christian when
in reality it reeks of Kristianity. Like a bad perfume, you can’t get away from
it.

Church Kristianity distracts people away from becoming true Christians. Christ
himself warned against this. A modern Church Kristian prides himself on irrelevancies
like church attendance, taking communion, singing in the choir, donating to TV
evangelists, believing the doctrines of some sect, affluence and heterosexuality. At
the same time he votes to tell his government to make life as comfy as possible for the
rich and as miserable as possible for the poor and sick. He spends his time and income
only on himself and his family. Like Dana Carvey’s Church Lady, he gloats over
the sins of others. He forgets the message to the churchgoers in
Luke 13:26-27.

Kristianity is stuck in the past. Even though most modern Kristians have never even
smelled a sheep, Kristians persist in using metaphors designed for illiterate
shepherds. Much has changed in the last 5000 years —
cities, medicine, science, international travel, global warming, the
WTO (World Trade Organisation), the
population explosion, the energy crunch, global pollution… Kristians try to
pretend nothing has changed since the fabled days of Moses. They avoid confronting the
problems of today by hiding in the past.

Judaism, Christianity, Islam and Bahai are founded on the notion of sacrifice. If
somebody does a foolish or wrong-headed thing, by some inexplicable magic, supposedly
the effects will be erased by killing a pigeon, destroying some perfectly good food, or
by deliberately creating suffering for yourself, e.g. deliberately getting yourself
crucified. What sacrifice really means is doing that which is hard
and which helps everyone. Creating misery that helps no one, then
labeling it sacrifice is just sado-masochism.

Kristian prudery kills. A right wing religious zealot, Bill Vander Zalm gained
power in British Columbia in the early 1980s. As premier, he
banned all education materials on HIV
for both children and adults alike. I, like many others, laboured under the delusion
AIDS
was just more hysteria — like the rumoured killer gonorrhea from Viet Nam. I
contracted HIV
in ignorance as did many other people at that time. Vander Zalm later called for
concentration camps for HIV
+ people. The courts blocked him. The churches have consistently blocked teaching safe
sex and birth control to the young. I spent many hours of my life trying to convince
young people to take safe sex precautions. Without official backup, that was almost an
impossible job. The young were convinced they were immortal. Kristian prudery
kills kids. Yet these hypocrites consider themselves more moral than everyone
else! They gloat when the young contract HIV,
claiming it is God’s punishment for not remaining virgins. Kristian prudery is
cruel. In the name of Kristian virtue, fathers and mothers have disowned their
daughters. Kristians are slaughtering a generation of children on the altar of Kristian
virtue.

The fundamental value, the core Kristian family value, is
persecuting homosexuals. That puts them in the same category as Nazis, whose core value
is hating Jews. Kristians started out with a superior morality and degenerated into a
hate group.

Kristians consider themselves more moral than anyone else, yet they meddle in
everyone else’s affairs that are no concern of theirs. They don’t see
anything wrong in that behaviour. They imagine they have the right to dictate the
reading and viewing material for other fellow adults. They think their religion gives
them the right to treat everyone else as children.

Kristianity encourages passivity. Instead of doing something about the evils of the
world, Kristians sit at home and twiddle their thumbs, all the while imagining they are
doing something highly virtuous and useful. They call this inactivity
praying. We heard a Muslim pilot of an airliner in serious
trouble idiotically repeating a prayer I put my fate in
God’s hands. instead of attending to the problems at hand.

Kristianity is so crass. Kristians can’t even donate to help a child in
Africa without contaminating that simple act of compassion with religion and the
implied after-death rewards.

Most modern religious music, except for Gospel, is cloying and insincere. It is an
insult to offer such drivel to the Creator of the Universe.

The celibate priesthood is a medieval idea that should be dropped. It leads to
pathologically repressed individuals who take out their sexual and sadistic feelings on
helpless children in their care. There has been scandal after scandal in Canada about
priests and nuns abusing children both sexually and physically.

Whenever there is a death, Kristians swoop down and start feeding their dogma to
the bereaved. The bereaved are upset and susceptible to childish stories of false hope.
Even my aunt Edith’s funeral was turned into a 30 minute infomercial for
Kristianity, even though my aunt and most of the guests were atheists.

Kristians are unwilling to leave others in peace who don’t believe their
myths. Even the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq are fueled by the popular will to punish
the Muslims for rejecting Christianity and the divinity of Jesus. The Muslims revere
him only as prophet.

Thomas Jefferson, US president

Thomas Jefferson, US president

The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to
others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or
no God. It neither breaks my leg, nor picks my pocket.
~ Thomas Jefferson(1743-04-131826-07-04 age:83)

It seems to me though when Kristians act vigilante style to punish
people for religious sins, then the government should step into curtail them.

The US constitution forbids any sort of religious test for holding office.
Kristians violate this flagrantly by grilling candidates on details of their religious
faith. Candidates flout their faith in violation of
Matthew 6:5.

Nearly all the hateful email I receive is from nominal Kristians. Non-Kristians
simply disagree. Kristianity makes people insanely self-righteous. I years past I
received thousands of death threats from Kristians due to my gay lib stance. Some even
send Trojans and viruses piggybacked on their email. Some have attempted to censor my
newsgroup posts with forged cancels. If Kristianity had a salutary effect on people,
should it not be the reverse?

The attempt to silence a man is the greatest honour you can bestow on him. It means
that you recognise his superiority to yourself.
~ Joseph Sobran(1946-02-23 age:72)

Kristianity is silly. Consider the recent agreement between the Catholics and
Protestants over the centuries old rift over the definition of justification. The crux of the disagreement was Martin Luther’s
belief that the process of forgiveness of sin came through faith alone and was an act
of God, while the Catholic church taught that justification required Man’s
cooperation with God. How could anyone tell if God had forgiven? How could anyone even
know if God cared if people sinned? Pretending to know, with absolute certainty, such
unknowable matters is dishonest. Kristianity is speculation, based on wishful thinking,
masquerading as truth.

Kristianity is juvenile. Kristians are like children who believe in teddy bear
magic to protect them from harm. Continually petitioning the deity for special favours
reminds me of a 2-year old pestering his mom for cookies.

Kristianity destroys the mind’s ability to reason. Kristians are incapable of
noticing when they are being illogical. They are so sure in their guts they are right
that they will resort to any dishonest tactic to promote their views.

Kristians greatly exaggerate the seriousness of consenting sexual activity between
teens and adults, even when there is little danger of pregnancy or disease
transmission. They will happily hound the older member of the couple to suicide and do
their best to persuade the younger that they have been ruined for life, creating a
self-fulfilling prophesy.

Kristian prudery and their belief in their divine right to meddle in others'
lives, gets in the way of finding workable solutions to the problems of prostitution
and drug abuse.

A Kristian zealot noticed a 10 year old boy engaging in sex play with his sister.
She had the boy hand cuffed and arrested and held without bail and charged with
incest. She cared not a whit that she was permanently traumatising both the boy and
girl by convincing them both they had done something unspeakably evil.

Kristians are so disgustingly obsequious in their relationship with God. It is as
if He were Genghis Khan and they were afraid to utter any criticism no matter how
justified. They dishonestly pretend God is infinitely kind, when it is patently
obvious, that the Kristian God is far more cruel and uncaring than any human. The good
news is the real God is nothing like the depiction in the Old Testament. God even has a
sense of humour.

If people have no regard for truth and evidence and simply make up myths and
proclaim them as literal truth, there is no way they will ever be able to agree. These
lies will be an eternal excuse for killing each other. People who love truth and
respect evidence don’t have this problem. They can resolve disagreements with
debate, experiment and observation. Two people seeking the real truth will necessarily
home in on the same thing if their minds have not been contaminated by religion or
similar brainwashing.

The whole idea of Kristian Triumphalism is that everyone has to believe and follow
the same rules for it to work. Kristianity was thoroughly
tried. Life under Kristian tyranny in the middle ages proved utterly unbearable. We
refer to those times of deep superstition as the dark ages.
In modern times we have Islamic states like Saudi Arabia and Iran. These countries have
to pay huge premiums to get skilled workers to go there. Very few people can stomach
such repressive regimes. Theocracies are anti-democratic. Yet still we have right wing
fundamentalists trying to subvert our modern democracies back into Kristian dominated
theocracies.

My complaint is not just with Kristians, but with religious fundamentalists of all
stripes. The Muslims and Jews in the Middle East are at each other’s throats
because each believes they have an exclusive handle on the truth and that all others
are worthless infidels. We had a Jewish rabbi offering public prayers to God to destroy
all Arabs. It is time everyone learned that their sacred texts are
just the best-effort conjecture of dead people. Ancient texts have even less validity
than modern day conjecture about the big questions and about how a society should be
organised. They are just books to help you find God. The books are not God. If God
spoke to you directly, you might be scared silly, thinking you were losing your mind.
If you open such a book at random and read the message, you
are giving God a channel to communicate to you. The channel is limited by what is
available in that particular book.

Kristians draw others into their delusion, not with argument, but with emotion and
wishful thinking. They don’t care if their tales are true. They are enamored with
how wonderful it would be if they were. Music, ritual and awesome architecture give
Kristianity an authority, reverence and solidity that it does not really have.
Kristianity is like a cloud. From a distance it looks substantial, but when you get up
close, you discover there is nothing to it.

What a ludicrous notion, that the world needs still more breeding when it already
bursting at the seams and there are unwanted children parked in foster homes!

Kristians ruin the political process. They park their brains and fall under the
spell of evil preacher/con men who command them to vote for corrupt candidates who
support war, persecution of gays, discrimination against minorities, destruction of
civil liberties, unconditional support for Israeli apartheid, economic imperialism,
abandoning the poor… All the crooked candidate needs to do is utter a few magic
pass phrases such as born again or partial birth abortion. Kristians consider it wicked to think for
themselves. They vote without understanding and in droves thus foisting these evil
candidates on the entire body politic.

Channel surf. You can always tell the Christian shows even when the people are not
talking about God. How can you tell? They blather. They just talk off the top of their
heads telling you what they think ought to be so, but speak with authority and
conviction. They never give specific verifiable information. They dumb down every
issue. They take pride in their ignorance. They repeat pat phrases. They shout, even
when describing the mind-numbingly obvious.

Kristians exploit children to sell their lies for them. The children are more
convincing than their con men handlers because they are too young to understand they
are saying things that are not true.

Kristians claim superiority over everyone else. They claim to have the one true
religion and the only path to God. This may seem like innocuous
boosterism, but it is a dangerous attitude. When someone is utterly convinced that God
sanctions all their actions, no matter how much they fly in the face of common sense,
they will do some pretty horrendous things, believing the end justifies the means.
Kristianity was at the root of Naziism. I am not saying that all Kristians are Nazis,
but that the belief in Kristian superiority got out of hand in Nazi Germany and lead
to killing Jews and gays on a massive scale. In a similar way, the
KKK (Klu Klux Klan) is a perverse outgrowth of a belief in Kristian
superiority. To this day, Kristians feel perfectly justified in persecuting members of
pagan religions because in their eyes they are
blasphemous. Kristians have no compunctions about forcing children of other faiths to
participate in Kristian festivals at schools, yet they are totally unwilling to let
their children experience the festivals and rituals of other faiths.

Sado-masochism is a sexual perversion. Kristians have elevated it to the highest
virtue. Kristians have a morbid fascination with the gory details of the crucifixion.
Perhaps Jesus’s suffering helped elicit some compassion, but the suffering in
itself was pointless. It helped no one. It just added to the universal load of
suffering. Further, all that hand wringing and crying over it helps no one. That too
just adds to the load of universal suffering. Weeping over the long dead Jesus just
distracts from doing something useful about the suffering going on
now. Suffering for the sake of suffering is just masochism.

I feel fury whenever I see Kristians milking the public with pathetic images and
violin music for funds ostensibly to help starving children in Africa. They spend the
money on bibles and tracts. They hold out dribbles of water and food
if the kids renounce their current religion. Doing so guarantees
social ostracism. What these kids need is food, shelter and medicine, given
unconditionally. What Kristians do is as absurd as forcing the kids to pretend to
worship the great pumpkin in return for a few handfuls of jelly beans.

Kristians sometimes encourage people to avoid medical treatment. My young friend
Damon is now dead because of his Kristian beliefs. He refused medical treatment
trusting that God would heal him. His Kristian friends killed him by lying to him about
the efficacy of prayer.

Kristians have zero regard for the environment. Not once have I ever heard one
preach on the protecting the environment or treating other species well.

In Moslem countries, five times a day the call to prayer blares out over
loudspeakers. In Christian countries, churches toll their bells monotonously for hours
at a time. Neither shows any consideration for those who might not want to hear the
cacophony. Their religion is so all-fired important it overrides any
normal consideration about annoying others with the noise.

Kristians confuse God with the bible. The bible is a book written by ancient men
about God. Whether it is correct or not means bugger all about the nature of God or
whether he exists. Kristians seem to imagine that rejecting the biblical description of
God is the same as rejecting God. To me, the bible is a calumny. The bible depicts the
creator of the universe as a petty buffoon. Those who accept the bible are rejecting
the real god, the true creator of the
universe, if there is one.

On 2000-12-17, I heard a televised sermon by a plump,
bespectacled fundamentalist preacher with an accent like Trent Lot’s, speaking to
an enormous auditorium of followers. He called for:

increased discrimination against homosexuals.

blocking access to pornography on the Internet. He knew better than other
adults what was suitable reading material for them.

beating children with sticks to make them fear God. He said that children
should be trained using the same techniques used for
training animals. Perhaps someone should hand him a modern animal training book.
Beating does not work. Rewards do.

He taught that all rebellion against authority was wrong and
that Hollywood should not encourage it.

He said that children need to be brainwashed constantly over and over and over to force the word of
God into their minds for a lifetime.

He said that women should attempt to get pregnant, even when they did not like
children or when they felt they could not provide a suitable environment to raise
the child.

He taught that the state should not help the elderly.

He explicitly called for the abolishment of the separation of church and
state.

All the problems in today’s schools can be traced to the removal enforced
recitation of the Lord’s Prayer.

I find those opinions wrong-headed. We did agree on a few matters, however:

The problems of assault with a deadly weapon, rape and drugs facing
today’s schools are more serious than those of 1948, talking, running in the
halls and gum chewing.

What passes for modern Kristianity has nothing whatsoever to do with
Christ’s message from his Sermon on the Mount. Instead it has been known to
preach child beating, laissez faire capitalism, old testament retribution, persecution
of homosexuals, abandonment of the poor especially in the third world, pseudoscience,
racial stereotyping, overbreeding, religious intolerance, deliberate ignorance, magical
beliefs about the causes of prosperity, gun ownership, heavy military spending and
morbid preoccupation with other people’s sex lives.

Kristians claim that without their dogma there would be no morality. That is not
true. Science has found that morality is hard wired into the human brain and starts to
appear even in infants. Kristianity warps this natural sense of fair play, teaching
people bigotry and cruelty also focusing on petty arbitrary behaviours that
don’t matter.

Kristians don’t even believe the their own BS. They tell you that when they
die, they will go to live with Jesus in bliss and eat off golden plates. Yet they are
so afraid of death, they will not only demand expensive, painful medical procedures to
prolong their own lives by a few weeks, they also insist everyone else, including
non-believers, suffer any amount of pain to procrastinate death. If they truly believed
their stories, they would rejoice when an elderly person died.

Kristian con men saturate the air waves with lies endlessly repeated. They have
been successful in persuading the majority of Americans to abandon science and embrace
a blood-thirsty ancient cult. Most Americans claim the earth is only a few thousand
years old and that evolution is bunk. Science means simply studying reality carefully
and objectively to find out what is actually true. Science means carefully having
others cross check every claim with experiments before it is accepted. Kristianity is
the hubris to imagine you already know everything without looking. As a result, America
has fallen way behind other nations in the mastery of science and technology. Americans
are headed back to the extreme superstition of the middle ages lead by ignorant
Kristians. Why are Kristians leading the population back to such ignorant times? The
more ignorant and superstitious people are, the easier they are to con.

Kristians have a perverted, racist and sexist sense of values. American Kristians
believe it is perfectly ok to maim, murder and torture Iraqi children. In fact they
cheer it on and funded it to the tune of
$40,000.00 USD
per family. They believe sex is evil and should only be permitted in church-sanctioned
unions between two people with differing numbers of X chromosomes. In their view,
lifetime monogamy is mandatory. If anyone violates their religious code they hound them
for years, forcing them from office, making the lose their jobs and attempting to drive
them into exile or suicide. They don’t believe in freedom of religion for anyone
but themselves. Other people’s sex lives are none of their bloody business. They
are outrageous busybodies and prudes.

Even after I have said all that, I still get emails all the time asking why I am so
vehemently opposed to Kristianity. Why not spend my energy tackling some other evils such
as whale killing, child torturing or Republicanism? I go after them too, but the reason I
put so much effort into combating Kristianity is:

No other group but Kristians actively attack me or try to deprive me of my civil
rights. They are my only personal enemies. They do this simply because the people I
fall in love with are usually male. They are the ones who threaten to kill me.

Kristianity is widespread and widely respected. In contrast, only a very few people
torture children and when they do, we soundly condemn them. People don’t yet
realise that Kristianity is not just misguided and foolish, but also actively
evil.

Kristians destroy the wonder of the universe. They want to replace the sparkling
reality with a pedestrian myth. Kristians refuse to let themselves know which was the
first flower ever to grace the planet.

Archaeology

Tom Harpur, theologian

Tom Harpur, theologian

There is not one iota of history as we know it in the entire Bible!
~ Alvin Boyd Kuhn(1880-09-221963-09-14 age:82)
Biblical
scholar

Modern archaeology has shocked Christians by showing that Abraham, King Saul and King
David never existed. The conquest of Canaan never happened. There was no escape from
Egypt or 40 years wandering in the wilderness. There were no
camels in the holy land at the times claimed in the Bible. Further, nearly every Biblical
story was plagiarised from the earlier cult of Horus, sometimes word for word. The Gospel
of John was not written until 130 years after Jesus’s
death and the others not until 170 years after. Other Gospels
were burned. There is no secular record of any of the astounding things Jesus purportedly
did, e.g. raising Lazarus from the dead or the saints rising from the graves at his
resurrection. What is most shocking of all is the preponderance of evidence leads
scholars to conclude Jesus is a fictional character. It took hundreds of years for the details of his life to jell. For a real
person, most detail is known during his lifetime and gradually the halos are added after
death.

Because there was no historic Jesus, then all the rest is bunk too. The entire
religion industry is founded on a lie the insiders have known about for 200 years.

For the complete story, see The Pagan Christ: Recovering the Lost Light
by Canadian Anglican theologian Tom Harpur.

Tom Harpur was an Anglican theologian. He presents the evidence that Christianity is plagiarized from earlier religions and has no historical basis. The Jesus story is intended to be taken as allegory, not literally. The Jesus cult developed over time, starting with a set of aphorisms and gradually adding details of Jesus’ life, much the way the story of Superman was elaborated. This suggests there was no historical Jesus. amazon.ca is the site mostly likely to have the book in stock since Harpur is a well-known Canadian theologian. You can see a summary on DVD.

Online bookstores carrying The Pagan Christ: recovering the lost light

But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do
good to them that hate you and pray for them which despitefully use you and persecute
you;

That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he
maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good and sendeth rain on the just and on
the unjust.

For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the
publicans the same?

And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? do not
even the publicans so?

Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is
perfect.

Can you see even the vaguest resemblance between this message and modern
Christianity?

Why Not Leave Well Enough Alone?

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not
entirely absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a
widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.
~ Bertrand Russell(1872-05-181970-02-02 age:97)

Obviously not all Christians fit with the extremely negative portrait I just painted
of Kristians. Though I have used the terms fundamentalist and Kristian
with great contempt, my disdain applies mainly to the meddlers. Not all fundamentalists
and Kristians are meddlers. True Christians are easy to get along with. They may be
deluded, but they are well-intentioned and relatively harmless.

Mother Theresa did her great works motivated by a desire to please God and the Pope.
Martin Luther King found the courage to risk his life in combating racism, under the
delusion that God would protect him. Bach wrote the world’s most beautiful music
inspired by his protestant faith. My friend Joyce Cousins on Quadra Island helped all
kinds of people free themselves from alcohol. Her constant inspiration is What would Jesus do? There seems to be no cure for alcoholism or drug
addiction other than handing the problem over to a higher power. There are religiously
motivated charities who pitched into help out the Kosovo refugees. Maya Angelou would not
have her charisma without her deep faith. Christianity must be given credit for taming
the Roman brutal life philosophy. The Christian group World Vision
ensures North Americans cannot ignore the grinding poverty in other parts of the world,
even if they do spend most of the money they collect on things other than food for the
children. The Bible is a collection of the best wisdom of a thousand years. It may not be
perfect or perfectly relevant, but it still has great value.

You have to judge a religion not only on its ideals, but how it affects
most of its adherents. The Old Testament is full of intolerance and
hate. The hate it brings into the world spawned acts like the crucifixion of Matthew Shepard. The white supremacist
church that Buford
Furrow (the man attacked a Jewish community center killing three little boys)
belonged to and Westboro Baptist Church would be extreme examples. The Old Testament has
acted for centuries as the moral underpinning for both slavery and racism. TV evangelists
are the main source of intolerance in the world. They teach smugness. Judaism and Islam
similarly cause their adherents to become narrow-minded and intolerant, even though the
Qur’an
itself stresses tolerance. The Old Testament teaches retribution. In other parts of the
world, particularly the middle east, Judaism and Islam cause even more trouble than
Christianity, though they behave themselves reasonably well in North America.

24 hours a day there are Kristian infomercials on TV, usually several at any one time.
The makers of these commercials make unsubstantiated claims for Kristianity, most
commonly that accepting it will cure you of fatal diseases or make you prosperous. If any
other product were making such claims, they would be pulled off the air if the
advertisers could not prove the claims.

The advertisers solicit funds for God. This is
preposterous. The creator of the universe does not need human money. He is ostensibly the
creator and owner of the entire universe. If he had need of anything he could just
manifest it. The money is for the advertisers to spend on earthly goods for themselves
and to finance more infomercials. For some reason, Kristianity is excused of the same
requirement for truth telling we require of secular broadcasters. Further, these
infomercials preach hatred and intolerance of gays. What is really galling is they
don’t even have to pay income and property taxes the way other hate groups do. They
are not required to offer equal time for rebuttal the way a political group would have to
do. I as a tax payer unwillingly subsidize their dishonest activities. Non-religious
advocacy groups don’t get a tax break.

Most Kristians would be shocked to discover they are members of a hate group, not that
much better than card carrying Aryan nation or KKK members. The only difference is the
KKK
teaches hatred of blacks and gays. The Kristian church teaches discrimination against
gays and women. Most have dropped their historic anti-black teaching. Most churches will
deny they teach hate, it is just that homosexuals are sinners and as such are second
class citizens deserving of discrimination and ill treatment. Oddly they don’t call
for less than full citizenship for adulterers, the greedy, the envious or the slothful.
The Kristian churches always are the main force blocking equal civil rights for gays. If
you are gay, what’s the difference between a Kristian and a member of the
KKK?
KKK members consider
themselves paragons of virtue, just as Kristians do.

We must make sure we eliminate them [gays and lesbians] from the face of Namibia. [The]
constitution does not guarantee rights for gays and lesbians. Even if gays and lesbians
had a gay dog they would murder it.
~ Jerry Ekandjo(1947-03-17 age:71),
Namibia’s home affairs minister, told police
officers on 2000-10-01 to eliminate homosexuals. Speaking to
700 new graduates of the police academy in northern Ondangwa

This is irrational. This crazy fear of homosexuals comes from Kristian
superstition.

Homosexuality is forbidden in Islam. It is a crime worse than murder.
~ Abdul Kadir Che Kob ,
the Kuala Lumpur head of education and
research, Time Asia.

Islam too teaches this ridiculous superstition. Rational people don’t
teach such stupid things to their children.

Nine young men in Saudi Arabia were sentenced to 2,600
lashes followed by six years in prison, simply for having deviant
sexual acts Deviant for whom? For these young men homosexuality is natural; it is
heterosexual acts that would be unnatural. Demanding that gay men enjoy sex with females
is much like demanding they enjoy only sex with dogs. It could be done under exceptional
circumstances, but it certainly does not come naturally. In Muslim countries gay men are
routinely whipped or castrated. Lesbians are publicly stoned. People will only torment
their fellows this way when they are convinced beyond a shadow of a doubt they are right.
Religion gives people this false conviction.

Our grandparents used the Bible to justify slavery.

Svend Foyn perfected the whale harpoon with a bomb in its head. He received the patent
on Christmas Eve and wrote in his journal Thank thee oh Lord. Thou
hast done it all. This invention lead to the extinction or near extinction of most
whale species.

In modern day, the
Christian
Identity Churches make no bones about preaching hate and racism.

Of course, there are moral lessons in the Bible, but these are nearly always ignored by
modern preachers. They focus on raising money, increasing hate for gays and feeling
holier than thou toward sinners particularly adulterers who have been unmasked.

Superstition

When I talk of combating Kristianity, mostly I
mean combating intolerant fundamentalist Kristianity, particularly the creationists and
inerrantists. However, ordinary Kristianity is full of superstition and on general
principles I think it necessary to discourage superstition. What is superstition? —
belief in a magic despite ample evidence it does not work. What are some common
superstitions?

That a black cat walking across your path will bring you bad luck.

You must avoid the number 13.

If you arrange to have many 8s in important numbers associated with you, you will
become wealthy.

If someone is sick, you can heal them by praying for them.

God will answer any prayer asked by two or more people in Jesus’s name.

If you had enough faith, you could fly. (LSD (d-Lysergic Acid Diethylamide)
takers jumping off
buildings surely had sufficient faith.)

That you can erase the bad effects of some foolish action by killing an animal or
by bringing suffering on yourself. The notion of sacrifice is central to Kristianity.
They assert the absurd notion that Christ’s suffering on the cross was a good and
necessary thing. This superstition grew out of the cave man habit of offering seeds,
dead animals or virgin boys and girls to appease the gods. Forgiveness requires no
further suffering.

The problem with relying on sacrifice to right wrongs in that no one tells you when
you have sacrificed enough goats.
~ Phil Laut

Holy water will give you special protection.

Sticking pins in a doll made to look like someone will cause them physical
pain.

A St. Christopher’s medal will protect you from harm when traveling.

Mental illnesses are caused by unclean spirits.

You can become wealthy by giving away large amounts of money.

You can become wealthy by thinking wealth thoughts, without doing anything
practical to earn the money.

If the Pope touches you, good fortune is sure to follow.

The problem with superstitions is people rely on them instead of more practical
measures that do work. Filling children’s heads with nonsense interferes with their
ability to distinguish truth from falsehood.

What Are The Big Lies?

On the perfection of Jesus:
Yes, Jesus masturbated, but he didn’t come.
~ N. Errantiste(18971911 age:14)

I have no idea if there is a God or not, but I do know that God pays no attention
to prayer. Even when entire congregations pray for someone’s health it has no
effect. This has been shown in various experiments, yet still the myth persists that
God will somehow set aside the normal laws of the universe if you
pray. There are spontaneous healings, but these happen just as often to people who are
not prayed over. There may be a few people with the knack, but in general nothing
happens.

God is 100% reliable. You can count
on God. Given that prayer has no measurable effect, it would seem more truthful
to say God is not amenable to human persuasion. If He exists, he clearly prefers not to
intervene in the petty troubles of humans, or he has already decided what is best.

Christ predicted that the Kingdom of Heaven would come before his generation passed
away. It did not.

Christ promised to answer any prayer made by two or more people gathered together
in his name. Clearly almost none of those prayers are answered, yet still Kristians
pretend these high sounding, but hollow, promises are Great Truths.

God has no particular fondness for Christians, or any other sect. They are killed
just as often in earthquakes and floods as anyone else. They die slowly and painfully
of cancer just like anyone else. They die in the same percentages in plane crashes as
anyone else. Yet this foolish myth persists that God will specially protect Christians
from all harm. That is a lie.

Some Fundamentalists claim the entire Bible is God’s direct word. It is so
inaccurate, self contradictory and incompetently written it could not possibly be. See
my Noah essay for an elaboration of that
argument.

Kristianity or any fundamentalist religion is an excuse to stop thinking. Any
action can be excused as God’s will. For example, some Kristian cults will
sexually molest children. Others aid and abet the murder of doctors who perform
abortions. Kristians routinely torment homosexuals. Obviously not all Kristians are
that badly behaved, but Kristianity still stops them from thinking clearly about the
morality of what they are doing. The irony is nominal Christians are less likely to
behave like Christ than anyone else.

Scientists who are Christian will lie to protect the Big Lie of Christianity. For
example, consider Sir Fred Hoyle, the eminent astrophysicist who compared evolution
creating higher organisms to the odds that a tornado sweeping
through a junkyard might assemble a Boeing 747. He knew perfectly well his
analogy was completely bogus. Natural selection is ruthless. It anything but random.
Modern day scientist know that computers solve complex problems using genetic
algorithms that alternate random mutations with non-random selection of the best
mutations. It is a standard tool. It is the basis of agricultural science as well.
Evolution works in nature. It works is the lab. Christian scientists deliberately
mislead the public into misunderstanding how it works because they know in their hearts
if the public knew the truth, they would discard the Christian fairy stories in favour
of hard facts.

Kristians imagine themselves morally superior to everyone else. They are the exact
opposite, even by Christ’s standard of measure. They are hypocrites who study the
motes in the their brothers’ eyes. They are the most insufferable people on the
planet next to the Muslim fundamentalists in their cloying self-righteousness. Look at
the fruit of the modern Kristianity tree — Jerry Falwell, Fred Phelps of the
Westboro Baptist godhatesfags Church, Hal Turner, the Pope disrupting the United Nations
conference on population control, the endless scandals of the Canadian Mount Cashel Christian brothers
sexually and physically abusing the children in their care, the white supremacist
movement, KKK, Robert Schuler and his opulent Crystal
Cathedral, the crucifiers of Matthew Shepard, the phony faith healers
Ernest Angley,
Benny Hinn,
Bryan Fischer (prosletysing homophobe),
Paul Lewis, Don Stewart (the guy who sells green prosperity prayer handkerchiefs
redeemable for one genuine merkle from God) and Peter Popoff (the guy who sells
plastic packets of merkle healing spring water and fakes clairvoyant messages from
God with an earpiece) and those holy warriors in Ireland and Yugoslavia. On the 700
Club Pat
Robertson claimed he raised a dead person but in an interview he stated he
couldn’t remember where or when. I think Christ would be furious if he saw how
his teachings have been twisted. As Ilka Chase put it, It is
usually when men are at their most religious that they behave with the least sense
and the greatest cruelty. Search google to see what people have to say about these
phonies.

In order that the happiness of the saints may be more delightful and that they may
give to God more copious thanks for it, they are permitted perfectly to behold the
sufferings of the damned… The saints will rejoice in the punishment of the
damned.
~ St. Thomas Aquinas(12251274-03-07 age:48)

The Pope recently updated the medieval exorcism
rituals. Even in this day, he still wants people to believe mental disorders are caused
by unclean spirits. It is time to rid the world of superstition. On 1999-01-26, Cardinal Jorge Arturo Medina, prefect of the Congregation for
Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, introduced an updated exorcism
ritual for the church. The previous major update had been issued as the Rituale Romanum
during the reign of Pope Paul V in 1614 CE. The new ritual is
described in a 84 page, bound in a red leather book written
in Latin.

There is no evidence at all that Jesus rose from the dead. Even the Bible says that
Jesus’s friends did not recognize the person claiming to be the risen Christ.
There is no mention of any of his miracles in the historical records.
It takes a great leap of gullibility to believe such stories with so little evidence.
There is even serious doubt that the historic Jesus ever existed.

Kristianity is full of outright con men. The head of the Canadian Kristian TV
Network, Dick Dewert, repeatedly claimed that God had mysteriously installed a new gold
tooth in his mouth. Skeptics talked with his dentist, Jack Sherman, who said that the
story was a crock. He had installed the gold tooth ten years earlier in a perfectly
normal way. Kristians seem to have never heard of the proverb Once
bitten, twice shy. Priests were caught faking weeping Virgin Mary statues. The
Mother Theresa miracle of the photographs where there was
not enough light turned out to be nothing more exotic than using a new high speed film.
Even after the truth was revealed, believers such as Malcolm Muggeridge kept repeating
the lie. Since the miracles so frequently turn out to be
fraud, it would seem that fraud should be the presumption until
definitely shown otherwise. To her credit, after she died, Mother Theresa confessed she
did not believe in all the Kristian miracle crap and had strong doubts that God
existed.

Some Kristian sects say that you can contact the voice of God within. This voice
will then be an utterly infallible source of truth on any matter and will invariably
counsel the wisest possible action. Did not the Son of Sam contact this voice and it
told him to kill people? People are so willing to deceive themselves. They so wish the
Deity would single them out for special conversation. Wishful thinking leads people to
completely irrational acts. Psychotic Abraham just about murdered his son Isaac,
imagining God had ordered him to do so in Genesis 22:10.

Kristians believe God will protect the earth from harm, that we humans can tear
down the forests, strip the topsoil, use the oceans as a toilet and God will fix it
for us if it finally breaks. God will not let us perish, even if we are foolish enough
to have a nuclear war. If we don’t destroy it ourselves, God will soon do it. The
imagine god as cosmic janitor.

Humans are God’s chosen species. Humans have a Nazi-superior-race right to
lord it over all other species and use them for whatever purposes they choose. There
are no negative consequences for any of this behaviour, even including complete
extinction of other species.

Sid Roth broadcasts racist propaganda
that Jews are the master race and God’s chosen people with special privilege.
He aims this at Christians who are soft in the head. He uses God as a bogeyman to
persuade Christians that Israel is incapable of error or wrongdoing and that even
questioning Israel or asking them to make peace with the Palestinians or their
neighbours will bring divine retribution in the form of hurricanes.

I don’t like Kristians. Kristianity is clearly wrong and evil. I think their
civil rights should be curtailed. Kristians should not be allowed to be teachers. All
references to the existence of Kristians should be removed from literature available to
children. Kristians should not be allowed to marry. Kristians should not be allowed
near children, far less adopt them, since nearly all of them are child molesters. As a
precaution, all children should be taken away from Kristian parents. An employer should
be free to fire any employee he suspects of being a Kristian. Kristians should not be
permitted to talk to any anyone under 21 about Kristianity. Kristians should be forced
to do their disgusting Kristian things behind closed doors with no more than two people
present. Kristians should be forced to look at surahs from the
Qur’an in
all public buildings. Kristian children should be forced every morning to chant the
Lotus Sutra. Kristians should be forced to swear oaths on the Bhagavad Gita in court.
Oops. I got it backwards. You might erroneously think from the Christian principle of
do unto others, that this is how the Kristians wanted us to treat them.

Kristians come across to me like carnival barkers or used car salesmen. They make
extravagant claims in grandiose vague language and offer no evidence to back them up.
Instead they say just trust me… Why would I trust
someone who is so obviously preoccupied with conning me into giving him money
for God then using it to buy himself a new car. Why would I
trust someone with such a callous disregard for objective truth? If God existed and the
Bible were truly his instruction book, everyone in their right mind would be eager for
instruction. The Kristians constantly sweep under the rug that they have absolutely no
evidence that the Bible is the word of God. They refuse to acknowledge the errors and
inconsistencies in the Bible, indicative of human rather than divine authorship. Like
slimy politicians, they argue using the tactics of repeated assertion and feigned
indignation at dissent. Without evidence, the bible deserves no more reverence than any
other social rule book written by ancient men. However, what is most galling, is these
Kristians who shamelessly lie and ignore evidence imagine themselves morally superior
to everyone else.

Tenets of Kristianity

The tenets of Kristianity have nothing
whatsoever to do with the teachings of Jesus in Matthew. They include:

Thou shalt persecute homosexuals. This is the most holy, the prime belief.

Thou shalt spit upon the poor and take advantage of them. They are weak and deserve
their fate.

Thou shalt take pride over all others in your exalted status, based on nothing more
than your belief. You are beloved of God for no reason other than your belief.

Thou shalt persecute or ideally kill others who worship other gods or no gods since
they are doomed anyway. You have every right to confiscate their property since they
are non-persons.

Women are inferior beings and should take orders from men.

Be like God as described in the Old Testament — arbitrary, cruel and
irrational.

Child Abuse

Is it moral to brainwash another being when they are
defenseless? Currently we grant parents the unconditional right to fill their
children’s brains with whatever nonsense they choose. Nobody is permitted to
interfere in any way. Parents have the right to completely block any other person from
offering that child an alternative view. No wonder we have a society of religious bigots
and superstitious ninnies.

I debate religious issues with Kristians. Something very odd happens when you point
out to one of these people how their beliefs are not only inconsistent with observed
reality but inconsistent with each other. They act like stunned goldfish, gaping. Yet
nothing sinks in. They come up with some totally irrelevant statement, usually a personal
attack.

As children, their parents brainwashed them. No matter what evidence they receive to
the contrary, the childhood fairy stories must be believed at all cost. Bertrand Russell
talked about how it was almost impossible to rid oneself of irrational beliefs learned at
nursemaid’s knee, even when intellectually you realise
they are poppycock.

Children are defenseless against lies burned into them using terror and violence. Even
if as adults they intellectually see that the ideas are likely false, they can’t
discard them because the child inside is still quaking in terror. Inculcating
Kristianity with terror is a form of child abuse. It should be illegal.

Cruel persecution and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essence
of religion, namely, its absolute claims.
~ Morris Raphael Cohen(1880-07-251947-01-28 age:66)

Kristians are so pleasure-denying and controlling with themselves, no wonder they are
so mean spirited with others. Attorney General Ashcroft refused to dance on religious
grounds. He even had clothes made for government statues to make sure no one might feel a
twinge of sexual pleasure contemplating their beauty. Kristians punish and guilt trip
children over masturbation, about as harmless an activity as there ever was. They want to
impose the normal behaviour for burned-out octogenarians on everyone.

Creationism

Creation science has not entered the curriculum for a reason so simple and so basic
that we often forget to mention it: because it is false and because
good teachers understand exactly why it is false. What could be more destructive of
that most fragile yet most precious commodity in our entire intellectual heritage
— good teaching — than a bill forcing honorable teachers to sully their
sacred trust by granting equal treatment to a doctrine not only known to be false, but
calculated to undermine any general understanding of science as an enterprise?
~ Dr. Stephen Jay Gould(1941-09-102002-05-20 age:60)

What harm would it do, if a man told a good strong lie for the sake of the good and for
the Christian church… a lie out of necessity, a useful lie, a helpful lie, such
lies would not be against God, he would accept them.
~ Martin Luther(1483-11-101546-02-18 age:62)

Fundamentalist Kristians, including Republican house leader Tom Delay, want the
Genesis Noah story taught to all school
children, not in anthropology class studying the creation myths of various cultures, but
as a scientific theory on par with evolution. The story is so obviously false it has no
standing as a scientific theory. Oddly they don’t want any mention of the creation
myths of any other religion but Kristianity. So much for separation of church and
state.

Is it not better to place a question mark upon a problem while seeking an answer than
to put the label God there and consider the matter closed?
~ Joseph Lewis(1889-06-111968 age:79)

Kristianity appears to behave like a virus that gradually erodes the mind’s
ability to reason. It is most apparent when you study cases of advanced Kristianity such
as creationists and inerrantists. You can see examples of their crazed thinking in some
of the emails they sent me.

The Inerrantists tell me outlandish things they believe counter to common sense and
observation. I ask why do you believe this? They respond,
because it is in the Bible. Yet they seem to have no problem
when I remind them that the Bible was written by ordinary, fallible men. They agree that
what went into the Bible was also decided by ordinary fallible men. It does not phase
them that these men derived their knowledge from visions,
dreams and hallucinations. Today, we have very little trust in people who have visions.
In fact we usually send such people off for psychiatric treatment. What makes the ravings
of today’s lunatics irrelevant yet the ravings of yesterday’s lunatics
100% truth? They trust the Bible because they believe it is the
word of God, failing to notice they have no evidence whatsoever that it is. There is
nothing special about the Bible to justify so grandiose a claim. Surely God could compose
a document more internally consistent with itself and consistent with reality. As holy
books go, the Bible is one of the least accurate. Yet Mom told them it was God’s
only word and that is enough. If I point his out, they will quote a verse in the Bible
claiming to be God’s word, foolishly thinking they have provided evidence. All holy
books do this and that still does not make them God’s word. They refuse to see
this. They start from the postulate the Bible is God’s holy word. They take that as
self-evident, where anyone not raised in the faith takes it is as absurd.

Freedom of Religion

Very few Kristians understand what
freedom of religion means. It means that you have a right to practice your own religion
without the state forcing some other religion down your throat. It also means you have
the right not to practice any formal religion at all. Sometimes this
principle is referred to as the separation of church and state. The corollary is that
you, in turn, must not cram your religion, no matter how superior and perfect it is, down
other people’s unwilling throats. Freedom of religion also includes freedom
from religion.

Consider the myriad ways that Kristians flagrantly violate this. The US Congress has
passed a clearly unconstitutional law making it mandatory to display the Christian Ten
commandments in schools and public buildings. Here are nine reasons why we should not do
that.

In court proceedings you are expected to swear an oath to the Christian God on the
Christian Bible. Kristians utterly refuse to see this as pushing their religion down
others’ throats. They see it as combating evil. They claim that Kristianity should
enjoy a special historically privileged position. What if the tables were turned and
everyone were expected to swear allegiance to Allah on the Qur’an
?

The United States is not a Christian nation any more than it is a Jewish or a
Mohammedan nation.
~ John Adams(1735-10-301826-07-04 age:90)
in the Treaty
of Tripoli (1797)

In Canada, MP (Member of Parliament)
Svend Robinson was demoted to the back benches for tabling a petition by
the Humanist Association of Canada
that suggested that the nugatory references to the supremacy of the Christian God over
the Canadian constitution be removed. He did not even sign the petition himself.
Kristians demanded that the democratic right to petition the government, dating back to
the Magna Carta, be abrogated.

Kristians routinely slander the Wiccan religion as witchcraft or Satanic worship.
Further, they demand that all practitioners be drummed out of the armed forces. Kristians
believe in freedom of religion, but only so long as it is Baptist or Pentecostal.

The greatest tragedy in mankind’s entire history may be the hijacking of morality
by religion.
~ Arthur C. Clarke(1917-12-162008-03-19 age:90)

Kristians routinely slander any form of atheism, such as Buddhism. They claim only
those who believe in Jesus Christ and the sky god Yahweh could possibly have any moral
values. If the behaviour of televangelists is any barometer of Christian moral values,
Kristianity does not rank high on any scale but hypocrisy.

Kristians like to spam technical Internet newsgroups with their blather. I have heard
some argue that spamming should be a capital offence. These people don’t even
acknowledge what they are doing is wrong.

Babies and Bathwater

Some people imagine that the only alternative
to Kristianity is a life of greed and depravity. You can still have the Christian ideals
without all the superstition, lies and B.S. Some parts of the Bible have as much chance
of being true as the story of how the bear got his short tail. Surely
those parts you can discard. (e.g. the story of Noah’s ark and Psalms 137:9
(Happy shall a man be, that smashes babies on rocks.) Surely
some of the things that the T.V. evangelists preach, you know are in
direct contradiction to what Christ would have you do. Surely you can discard
those, like Reverend Ike and his single minded pursuit of wealth.

On the other hand it is not hard to find villains who rejected all manner of religion.
Stalin springs to mind. Would he have been any gentler if fueled by Christian ardour?

Without Kristianity, you can still be your brother’s keeper. You can still ask
yourself, How should I act so that this works out best for all
concerned? You can still work to treat the Samaritans of your society as equals.
You can dedicate your life to help those who need it most. You can still work for
ruthless inner and outer honesty. You just don’t need to feed yourself lies about
why you are doing it or about the supernatural magic protection you will enjoy while you
do it.

Oh my Lord, if I worship Thee from fear of Hell, send me there;
Oh my Lord, if I worship Thee from desire for Paradise, exclude me thence;
But if I worship Thee for Thine Own sake, hide not from me Thine Eternal Beauty.
~ Rabi’a al-Adawiyya(717 AD801 AD age:84)

A female Sufi saint, Rabi’a, argued that if you do God’s will for thought
of reward or for fear of punishment, you deserve damnation. Only if you do it for
God’s sake is your work pure. In an odd sense then, the atheist who behaves well
without thought of supernatural punishment or reward should be purer in God’s eyes
than some silly toady who believed the superstitious hellfire/heaven stories.

The real God, if He exists, surely is not as sickenly foolish, petty, vain and hokey
as portrayed by Kristianity. Consider instead becoming a servant of the real God or becoming a servant of
mankind, the planet or the universe — something with a firm foundation. You do this
because it is the right thing to do, not because you are motivated by a promise of a
disproportionate reward. Even pigs will work for rewards.

The universe itself is a miracle, — the most direct possible message from the
creator. If you want to know the Truth, study it, not just the works of man. Kristians
are like people would rather read the Cliff Notes version of Macbeth than view an
original performance.

How To Rid The World of Christian Superstition

There is nothing wrong
with the golden rule or the notion you are your brother’s keeper. That is not
Christian superstition. By Christian superstition I meant the outright lies,
misinformation and grandiose unsubstantiated claims taught in conjunction with those
noble truths.

Minds great as Voltaire have taken a stab at discouraging Kristianity with less than
stellar results. However, Kristianity has seen a remarkable decline in Canada and Europe.
Since truth is on the side of atheism and since the Internet has provided a means to
sneak new ideas past the defences of the Kristian censors and to seed them all over the
planet, there are many new opportunities for deprogramming Kristians. The USA is still a
major holdout. What can you to do help eliminate it?

Fight any attempts to force Christian school prayer in schools.

Lobby for teaching all the world major religions in anthropology class. Students
will learn they are not the only ones convinced they have an exclusive magic handle on
the truth.

Fight teaching creationism in science classes. It should be taught in anthropology
class along with the creation myths of other cultures.

Don’t show false reverence for Kristianity. Try to treat it with the same
respect you would have for astrology or 900 psychic numbers. Refer to it as
Kristian superstition.

Don’t concede that the Kristians have an exclusive handle on God. Refer to
the Kristian God or the Sky
God. The Kristian view of God is warped. Don’t insult the real God by
confusing the true attributes of God with the Kristian caricature.

Let Kristians know when they spout nonsense. Most are under the delusion nearly
everyone finds them coherent, agrees with them and respects them. They are used to
looking down their noses at everyone else. Put them on the defensive
for a change.

Make it clear you do not condone violence against Kristians or any denial of their
civil rights. They deserve the same compassion as any other delusional person.
Encourage them to live the values Jesus professed such as the Golden Rule or being
their brother’s keeper. Realise there are good Christians and sound parts of the
Bible. Your complaint is with the superstition, the hate and the ecologically
irresponsible parts of the Bible. Reassure them you do not consider Kristianity
responsible for all or even most of the evil in the world. You would never guess I too
hold that view, reading the rest of this essay. :-)

If anyone seriously swallows the Kristian myth of life after death, they can kill
people imagining they have done nothing serious, just sent them to heaven early.
Fanatical Muslims are so convinced of a similar lie they happily kill both themselves
and others in suicide attacks. The Inquisition happily tortured heretics thinking
inflicting any amount of earthly pain was justified in hopes of eternal post-mortem
reward. Seed doubt.

Lobby to gradually phase out the various special income and property tax breaks for
churches. They should get the same breaks as the equivalent secular institutions.

In 1850, I believe, the church property in the United States, which paid no tax,
amounted to $87 million. In 1900, without a check, it
is safe to say, this property will reach a sum exceeding $3
billion. I would suggest the taxation of all property equally.
~ Ulysses S. Grant(1822-04-271885-07-23 age:63)

The state subsidy for superstition today must be staggering. It is
unconstitutional. It is treating those who subscribe to a religion preferentially.

Lobby for truth in advertising. TV Evangelists make all kinds of unsubstantiated
claims on TV. The TV psychics are forced to announce they are for entertainment only.
Why do we let the Kristians get away with similar lies?

Ask Kristians to remove the phrases in Leviticus that call for killing gay people
and others. If they don’t really mean them, they should remove them from the
standard distributed Biblical texts, keeping them perhaps in a footnote or in special
scholarly editions. Jesus repudiated the Old Testament. Why do modern Kristians hold
onto to the selected parts of it that give them a license to hate? We charge other hate
groups for distributing hate literature. Why should Kristians be immune, just because
they have got away with it for so long?

If you are a Kristian yourself, expose yourself deeply to other religions and
ruthlessly examine your own beliefs. Discard those that are merely comfortable, but
without firm foundation.

Jesus made a special point of discouraging the laying of emphasis on outer observances,
and, indeed upon hard-and-fast rules and regulations of every kind. What he insisted
upon was a certain spirit in one’s conduct, knowing that when the spirit is
right, the details will take care of themselves. Yet, in spite of this, the history of
orthodox Christianity is largely made up of attempts to enforce all sorts of external
observances on people.
~ Emmet Fox(1886-07-301951-08-13 age:65)
American
evangelist.

The Murder

In the early 70s, I met a Greek Orthodox monk. He told me a story which I think was based on Anton Chekhov’s The Murder.
It goes roughly like this:

Matvey Terekhov lived in Russia with his cousin Yakov, who ran an inn. Matvey was once extremely religious and ascetic, but left asceticism behind. Yakov, on the other hand, was obsessively
religious. During Lent they both fasted eating nothing but boiled potatoes. Yakov discovered that Matvey was secretly pouring some oil on his potatoes. Yakov was horrified. Yakov was overcome with
anger and Aglaya, Yakov’s wife, hit Matvey over the head with a bottle and killed him.

That is a great metaphor for what goes wrong when you base your life on endless petty thou-shalt-nots. You lose your sense of proportion. This story applies even more to Muslims that Kristians.
They are driven nuts by fear of eternal roasting for violating trivial rules.

Is it OK To Be Polite to Kristians?

Nazis are a deluded cult who try
to convince themselves they are superior because they are Germanic. KKK members are deluded cult who try to convince themselves
of their superiority because they are white. Kristians are deluded group of cults who try
to convince themselves of their superiority because they are heterosexual.

All three groups to this day attempt to suppress the civil rights of non-cult members.
Historically all three groups have ritually murdered non-cult members.

Is it right to treat Nazi views with polite respect? Is it right to treat
KKK
views with polite respect? Is it right to treat Kristian views with polite respect? Do
you have a moral duty to show at least some disrespect? Is showing respect just cowardly?
Are you obligated to humour a fruitcake who insists Santa Claus is real, that alien
beings live in his attic, that blacks or gays are inferior, that the earth is flat,
especially when he can offer no evidence to support these outlandish claims? It would be
preposterous to respect such nutty beliefs. They are garbage
and deserve to be treated as garbage.

On the other hand, though spitting in a Nazi’s face might make abundantly clear
what you think of his fruitcake superiority notions, it is unlikely to result in
instantaneous conversion to some more benign life philosophy. Deeply satisfying as it may
be, there probably exist more effective measures for persuasion.

Is Religious Tolerance A Good Thing™?

Freedom of religion is
one of the fundamental constitutional principles of both Canada and the USA. Intolerance
between cults and religions has lead to endless military conflict. Surely live and let
live is the best policy. People should be left alone to believe whatever arrant nonsense
they want to and to teach it to their children to the exclusion of anything else, but is
that really the best policy?

There are four parts to Kristianity.

the mumbo jumbo outrageous unsubstantiated claims, e.g. God will answer prayer, God
will not allow the ecosystems of earth to collapse.

the erroneous science, e.g. creationism

the anti-gay attitudes.

the philosophy that you are your brother’s keeper.

It would be a Good Thing™ to throw out parts 1-3 and keep 4. The problem with
any sort of religion is the accretion of falsehoods. People tend to swallow it as a
whole. They imagine there is no possible way to hold onto 4 without also holding onto
1-3. They have been conned into thinking they are an inseparable whole. They equate
giving up the Kristian myth with embracing a life of devil worship and wickedness.

It comes down to this, should you defend someone’s right to lie and make false
claims? Do people have an inalienable right to spout whatever nonsense they please and
expect all polite people to quietly let it pass unchallenged, just because it is a sacred
cow labeled faith?

There is so much friction between religions, you might say yes. Just
shut up and don’t make trouble. But perhaps the better approach is to challenge
all these nutty religious beliefs. The friction exists because of the
untruth in the various religions. If they were stripped bare to their true essentials,
the conflicts would disappear.

If people bring up faith-based ideas in public, they had better be prepared to back
them up and be challenged, just as they would if they made statements about global
warming. Why should religious beliefs be protected from scrutiny the way other erroneous
beliefs are not?

I am not suggesting putting all Kristians in jail, removing their civil rights the way
they want done to gays, violence, cruelty or desecrating their churches. I simply suggest
challenging Kristian lies or unsubstantiated claims any time they bring them up rather
than letting them politely pass, feigning agreement. Treat their claims the same
objectivity you would treat someone proclaiming the risen Elvis or that aliens were
giving him stock market tips.

Further, skeptics should counter any evangelistic activities by demanding equal time
for rebuttal. Gradually we should make it illegal to advertise a religion/ministry with
unsubstantiated promises, using the exact same truth in advertising law you use to
counter unsubstantiated claims about any other product for sale on TV.

Hypocrisy

I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it
always coincides with their own desires.
~ Susan B. Anthony(1820-02-151906-03-13 age:86),
1896

Even true Christians treat Jesus simultaneously both as a lunatic and as a
God. They don’t take him seriously no matter how much lip service they give to the
absolute truth of his every uttering. I refer in particular to some of his rather extreme
advice in Matthew:

In Matthew 5:29 Jesus
counsels cutting off your hand or plucking your eye should it offend you. Alex Kolansky,
a Canadian eccentric, on reading this verse cut off his own hand. His hand had offended
him by masturbating him. Nearly all Kristians would consider Kolansky deranged.

In Matthew 5:40 Jesus
counsels giving your cloak to someone who takes your coat. What modern Christian would
help a burglar load up the van with his possessions, or lend money to anyone who asked?
That is clearly impractical.

Jesus was crazy as a loon. Anyone behaving as he did today, would be quickly diagnosed
as psychotic. Yet Kristians insist on claiming he was sane while simultaneously ignoring
him as a nutcase who did not mean what he said.

Other Religions

The main thing that makes Kristianity
plausible is if you have never been exposed to any other religion. When you have a
serious look at a few others, Kristianity becomes just another religion. You then have
the problem of deciding which is the true religion, if any. You can’t very well
decide Kristianity is the best and only one true religion without having even a peek at
the others. I selected these links from a rather cursory use of the Altavista search
engine. If you know of a better site to introduce each religion, please let me know.

Easter Bunny, another
children’s training religion. A large rabbit hides coloured candy eggs in
abundance for children to find. The rabbit carries these in a basket. The rabbit
makes chocolate body castings of itself to distribute as well, sort of toy Eucharist.
This breaks the kids in gently to the revolting ritual cannibalism of bloody flesh
required of adults. Easter is the sugar festival to balance the dark side the force
sugar festival on Halloween, when strangers are strenuously encouraged to give candy
to children, under threat of vandalism, aka trick or treat.
The eggs appear whether or not one is naughty or nice, so the Easter Bunny is not
nearly as terrifying to children as Santa Claus. The funniest thing about Christians
is their religion has even less evidence to support it than the Easter Bunny’s,
but they don’t seem to notice just how preposterous their religion is.
Kristianity does not seem utterly potty and absurd only from
lifelong familiarity.

Santaism. The belief that a fat old
man sneaks into children’s rooms at night, by slithering down narrow chimneys,
to fill their stockings with goodies. He lives at the north pole. He has a reindeer
sled. Santa Claus is a children’s training religion. Its purpose is to control
the behaviour of children with supernatural bribery and to soften them up for the
even less plausible adult religion. The parents help foster the Santa illusion by
actually providing the goodies. In the follow-on adult religion, Christianity, you
don’t get any goodies at all, at least not till you die. Advertisers foster the
notion of a very generous Santa in an attempt to arm twist parents into spending for
elaborate gifts to make the child feel accepted by Santa. Guns, gun games and
artificial guns the most common and desired gifts, now surpassing the perennial
favourite, the pony. Most North Americans outgrow this religion at some point in
childhood, with a quite painful period of disillusionment, (both about Santa not
being real and being lied and tricked by everyone) though nearly all adults believe
in the religion enough to instill into their own children. It could be considered
like hazing, an inter-generational cruelty or practical joke. Or it could be excused
as performing bit of stage magic, that appears real in order to create an experience
of bafflement and wonder. Santa reputedly has spies that watch children 24/7, called
elves. When I was immersed in the Santa religion I made a top to bottom search in all
possible hiding places in the house for these little traitors. I can still remember
looking for them in the blinds. I strongly resented them watching me. I found both
Santa Claus and clowns terrifying creatures and I resented the way the Shriner
clowns would persist in engaging me with their psychotic gestures even when it was
obvious they made me extremely uncomfortable.

Some of the above don’t consider themselves religions, though all ask you to
accept some sort of metaphysics. Some demand exclusive loyalty; others such as living
love and TM do not.

Why Believe?

Once upon a time, some artificially-intelligent
computers on the Internet were having a discussion trying to understand why humans
believe one religion and not another. One speculated that religions were
stories/speculations made up to scare people into behaving co-operatively. You would
think the religion that succeeded in persuading its adherents to treat others best would
win out by example. This was clearly not the case.

Another computer noted that humans nearly always take on the beliefs of their parents.
Another chimed in that humans take great care to shield their young from even knowing of
the existence of competing religions and philosophies and teach their young that it is
exceedingly wicked and even dangerous to even investigate them. This is the main
mechanism for persistence through the generations. Another computer noted that humans
will super-revere some object or book. Over the generations the degree of reverence
builds and builds. It becomes almost unthinkable to reject it, even though it has
relatively little objective merit.

Another noted that the religion with the scariest story wins out, e.g. Christianity is
scarier than Buddhism and Islam is scarier than Christianity. Another pointed out that
the religion with the juiciest heaven promise wins out, e.g. Buddhism offers yet another
life slightly better than this one. Christianity offers freedom from toil. Islam offers
both male and female houris to have sex with. Humans don’t choose a religion based
on likelihood of truth, but to avoid the worst case punishment.

Yet another computer mused what would happen when humans made contact with
missionaries from another part of the galaxy, with a high tech religion complete with
holodecks to terrify the living daylights out of potential converts. How long would it
take to wipe out all the earth religions? One possible defense would be to create a
heaven on earth better than any promised in any of the religions. Another possible
defense would be to educate people to select religions based on merit, probable truth and
utility, not just on how terrifying the threats and promises. People should be encouraged
to try various religions and philosophies out for a while before committing to them.

Your Brother’s Keeper

Every religion suggests it is a good idea
to treat others well, particularly the less fortunate. However, the de facto religion of
the USA is consumerism. Basically, the core tenet is, if someone cannot look after
himself he is a lazy bum and deserves to die. The purpose of life it to acquire and
consume the most goods possible in the most conspicuous way.

Every time a man changes jobs, it gives the insurance companies a chance to refuse
insurance in case he has health problems. So many people go without medical care. It is a
disgrace that the USA is so far down on the list of countries in terms of longevity,
infant mortality and adequate medical care and all because of greed.

Nobody seems to notice the unfairness of American workers earning
$20.00 USD
an hour where people in China doing the same work earn only
$0.06 USD
. We base all our decisions on economics. We do
whatever makes the most money, especially in corporate decisions which have the biggest
global impact. This leads us to rape the environment and use our upper hand to push the
poor in other countries even deeper into poverty. Trusting economics as the sole method
of making decisions leads to insane behaviour.

Modern Kristianity never speaks out on these gross injustices. In South America it
even encourages the oppressed to accept their oppression. It cozily coexists with
consumerism, accepting pledges by MasterCard.

Chickens are tortured by wiring their feet to the bottoms of their cages. We eat the
eggs produced this way rather than free range eggs because they are a dollar cheaper.
What kind of person are you that you want animals tortured to save you a buck? Have you
ever heard a Kristian sermon on your moral duty to be kind other species?

Kristianity gives unction to people’s consciences. They can sleep walk through
life imagining they are leading a virtuous life, where in actuality they are indirectly
hurting animals, starving people in the third world and raping the environment.

A churchman in a recent letter to the editor made the point that Christians have no
real responsibility to seek ways to alleviate poverty. All that is required of us is to
practice a little charity as we have opportunity. Is that what Jesus taught: just a
little pocket change when we feel the urge?

The Kristian church is irrelevant to this age. All it can see are the sins and
superstitions that were important to people 5000 years ago.

Ask Dr. Laura

Thank you for doing so much to educate people regarding God’s law. When someone
tries to defend the homosexual lifestyle, for example, I simply remind him that
Leviticus 18:22 clearly
states it to be an abomination. End of debate. I do need some advice from you, however,
regarding some of the specific laws and how to best follow them.

When I burn a bull on the altar as a sacrifice, I know it creates a pleasing odor for
the Lord ( Leviticus 1:9). The
problem is my neighbors. They claim the odor is not pleasing to them. How should I deal
with this?

I would like to sell my daughter into slavery, as it suggests in
Exodus 21:7. In this day
and age, what do you think would be a fair price for her? I also know that I am allowed
no contact with a woman while she is in her period of menstrual uncleanliness (
Leviticus 15:19-24
). The problem is, how do I tell? I have tried asking, but most women take offense.

Now I have a neighbor who insists on working on the Sabbath.Exodus 35:2
clearly states he should be put to death. Am I morally obligated to kill him myself?
Then, Exodus 25:44
states that I may buy slaves from the nations that are around us. A friend of mine claims
that this applies to Mexicans but not Canadians. Can you clarify?

A friend of mine also feels that even though eating shellfish is an abomination (
Leviticus 11:10.), it
is a lesser abomination than homosexuality. I don’t agree. Can you settle this?
And Leviticus 22:22 states
that I may not approach the altar of God if I have a defect in my sight. I have to admit
that I wear reading glasses. Does my vision have to be 20/20, or is there some wiggle room
here?

I know you have studied these things extensively, so I am confident you can help.
Thank you again for reminding us that God’s word is eternal and unchanging.

The Counter Argument

During a Vancouver transit strike, the
strikers told people they would not get caught if they did not pay to ride the automated
Skytrain system. Approximately 80% of the people used the Skytrain without paying. Fear
of punishment is clearly a strong motivator in getting people to refrain from stealing.

What harm would it do, if a man told a good strong lie for the sake of the good and for
the Christian church… a lie out of necessity, a useful lie, a helpful lie, such
lies would not be against God, he would accept them.
~ Martin Luther(1483-11-101546-02-18 age:62)

Is it necessary for the people to believe a lie to behave properly? Do they have to
believe in some eternal torment? It does not work. Since the choice is binary, eternal
bliss or eternal torment, there is no incentive to be better than average or to refrain
from further sin once you have gone over the line, even if you do believe the con. If you
believe in priestly magic to forgive sin, what incentive is there to refrain from sin
other than the embarrassment of confession? It is building society on sand. A lie is not
a firm foundation. Sooner or later the deception will out. It would be better to teach
people to behave for reasons that make sense, that won’t fall apart under
dissection. If you are going to tell a lie, it would be better to tell one closer to the
truth, the law of karma, which in fact roughly applies to a single lifetime and which
gives incentive to avoid ever deeper sin and to aspire to ever higher virtue.

In my essay on
euthanasia I tell the story of being present at David Lewis’s suicide. David
was very frightened about his impending death. I told him all the after death myths I
knew of, every culture, even ancient Egyptian. This seemed to calm him. When a
child’s dog dies, it seem natural to reassure him that the dog is not really dead,
but has moved on to some wonderful dog heaven, where he will soon be reunited. These are
beautiful lies, but lies none the less. Perhaps reality is too difficult for humans to
make it through unaided without a crutch of lies and wishful speculation. However, this
still does not make the stories true.

There are obviously many strange things in this universe that are undreamt in our
philosophy and science. I have written about some of my own baffling experiences. Among the most interesting
are out of body experiences and near death experiences. Yet these experiences typically
do not correspond with official Kristian dogma. Yet, on the other hand, they are
influenced by religious beliefs. They do not confirm any particular dogma. They merely
show how much we have yet to learn.

Racism

The Christian churches in the USA are segregated by race.
Could you imagine Jesus turning someone away from his teachings because they had the
wrong skin colour? You won’t see a mosque or Buddhist temple turning anyone away
because of skin colour.

Antienvironmentalism

Perhaps the most insane belief of
the Christian right is antienvironmentalism, the belief that it is a Good Thing™ to
destroy the environment. How could such an anti-survival notion have taken root?

The leaders of the religious right have sold the childlike religious right the
nutty idea that people who support the environment are literal tree worshipers, one
step from devil worshipers. They refer to environmentalism as a modern
idolatry. The cynically use the fear of non-Christian religions to whip the flock
into line with the corporate agenda. Even the respectable Wall Street Journal fed the
hysteria with a 1993 editorial that stated environmentalists promoted a pagan fanaticism that now worships such Gods as Nature with a reverence
formerly accorded real religions.

Corporations have successfully fed the gullible religious right, along with
everyone else, that it is safe to trash the environment and that anyone who thinks
otherwise is a kook who wants to live in the stone age.

The religious right believe there is no need to protect the environment because
Jesus is coming soon and will restore it all.

The religious right believe that destroying the environment and causing Armageddon
will pressure Jesus to show up earlier than he otherwise would.

In 1992 the Wise Use Movement declared that environmentalism was the new paganism. The movement reported that trees
are worshiped and humans sacrificed at its altar. It is evil. And we intend to destroy
it. This is as nutty as the stories about Jews boiling babies.

As an atheist, reverence for life and nature makes a lot more sense to me that
reverence for an invisible sky god that refuses to interact with modern humanity. This is
all just too stupid for words. These loons must somehow be stopped from destroying the
planet.

I find it ironic that conservative Christians insist that the story of Noah is
literally true. In that story, God clearly wants every last one of his species to
persist. Yet they voted for George Bush whose environmental policies are making species
go extinct faster than at any time since the end of the dinosaurs.

A left-wing cult dedicated to bringing down the type of government I believe in.
~ James Gaius Watt(1938-01-31 age:80),
Secretary of the Interior, describing environmentalists

A tree’s a tree. How many more do you need to look at?
~ Ronald Reagan(1911-02-062004-06-05 age:93)

I do not know how many future generations we can count of before the Lord returns.
~ James Gaius Watt(1938-01-31 age:80),
Secretary of the Interior, 1981-02-05

We have every kind of mix you can have. I have a black, I have a woman, two Jews and a
cripple.
~ James Gaius Watt(1938-01-31 age:80),
Secretary of the Interior, 1983-09-21

If the troubles from environmentalists cannot be solved by the jury box or at the
ballot box, perhaps the cartridge box should be used.
~ James Gaius Watt(1938-01-31 age:80),
Secretary of the Interior

There will never be peace until God’s house and God’s people are given
their rightful place of leadership at the top of the world. How can there be peace when
drunkards, drug dealers, communists, atheists, New Age worshipers of Satan, secular
humanists, oppressive dictators, greedy money changers, revolutionary assassins,
adulterers and homosexuals are on top…there is absolutely no way that
government can operate successfully unless led by godly men and women operating under
the laws of the God of Jacob.
~ Pat Robertson(1930-03-22 age:88)
in his 1991 book The New World Order.

You say you’re supposed to be nice to the Episcopalians and the Presbyterians and
the Methodists and this, that and the other thing. Nonsense. I don’t have to be
nice to the spirit of the Antichrist. I can love the people who hold false opinions but
I don’t have to be nice to them.
~ Pat Robertson(1930-03-22 age:88)

The strategy against the American radical left should be the same as General Douglas
MacArthur employed against the Japanese in the Pacific… bypass their
strongholds, then surround them, isolate them bombard them, then blast the individuals
out of their power bunkers with hand-to-hand combat. The battle for Iwo Jima was not
pleasant, but our troops won it. The battle to regain the soul of America won’t
be pleasant either, but we will win it.
~ Pat Robertson(1930-03-22 age:88),
Pat Robertson’s Perspective, 1992-04

Environmental policies are driven by a kind of emotional spiritualism that threatens
the very foundation of our society. There is increasing evidence of a
government-sponsored religion in America. This religion, a cloudy mixture of new-age
mysticism, Native American folklore and primitive Earth worship, is being promoted and
enforced by the Clinton administration in violation of our rights and freedoms.
~ Helen Chenoweth-Hage(1938-01-272006-10-02 age:68)
rep, R-Idaho, testifying to congress about her delusions. She had such a sectarian view
of the world, that she can only grasp science in terms of warring cults.

And the nations were angry and thy wrath is come and the time of the dead, that they
should be judged and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets,
and to the saints and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy
them which destroy the earth.
~ Revelation 11:18
warning the Robertsons that God will destroy them for destroying the earth.

Fundamentalist Logic

Arguing with fundamentalists can cause apoplexy,
especially if you were trained as a mathematician. You can show, for example, that it
would be utterly impossible to fit a pair of each species into Noah’s ark. They will cheerily reply, With
God, all things are possible. It bothers them not a whit they can come up with no
explanation of how this happened. That is God’s problem. The prime postulate is
that the Bible is correct. Even if it appears otherwise, there must be
some explanation. There is no need to discover it. There is no need to give any reason
why the Bible is God’s word. That is just assumed as given, even
though everyone freely admits ordinary men actually wrote it.

Similarly, fundamentalists have no compunction about lying. Since they know the end is
just, it is fine to use crooked means, e.g. to present a straw man argument to discredit
evolution.

Like primitive man, they believe God micromanages the universe. If there appears to be
a pattern, that is just God’s whim. There is no need for anything to make any sense
at all. Contradiction in their beliefs does not bother them. They are quite happy to
believe contradictions. Mathematicians and scientists, on the other become very
uncomfortable when they discover a contradiction in their beliefs. They immediately
assume they must have made an error. Fundamentalists have no such
trouble. They simply assume they don’t fully understand the mystery. A
contradiction is just another miracle to give praise for.

Fundamentalists claim that the Bible is inerrant and that they follow every sentence
of it to the letter. You can point out all kinds of sentences they clearly violate and
but they will never acknowledge they are doing that no matter how plain the violation,
e.g. their failure to keep a perpetual fire burning in their altars. What they truly
recognize as the authority is not the bible, but what their church tells them. They are
obedient to authority and they see this as a virtue. It does not bother them that their
own reading of the bible contradicts with authority. Authority knows better than they do.
If common sense conflicts with authority, their own common sense must be wrong. They had
it beaten out of them as children to trust their lying eyes
or to dare question authority no matter how absurd its assertions.

The end result is fundamentalists will happily support a government that murders,
steals, lies, rapes, takes from the poor to give to the rich, embezzles, deluding
themselves they are doing this all for Jaysus in accordance with his explicit wishes.
They trust authority more than they trust themselves.

You might counter that science too has statements that violate common sense,
especially in quantum mechanics. But what the scientists are saying is that things work
quite differently on the very small scale than they do on the ordinary scale. Common
sense on the small scale needs to be conditioned by watching how things really behave on
the small scale. There are no logical inconsistencies, just peculiarities. Science
insists on revising itself to fit the observed facts. Fundamentalism does not care about
facts. They are as irrelevant as dreams. Truth (with a capital T) is what religious
authority asserts. Truth, in the fundamentalist view, has nothing whatsoever to do with
how things actually happen in the real world. Facts are a distraction.

Mathematicians are happy to argue about either universes where there is only one
parallel line possible through given point or universes where there are an infinite
number. But in each, the rules are consistent. But unlike fundamentalist logic, in
mathematics, there are no contradictions permitted within the scheme of assumptions.

So how then could you ever crack a fundamentalist out of his delusional world view? It
won’t be by logic. I have heard only one case where that ever happened. It will be
through powerful emotion, perhaps by seeing, for example, that God abandoned him or treated him or treated someone he loves completely
unfairly. It won’t dawn on him until this hits him personally. Seeing the obvious
general suffering of the third world population won’t do it. It might come
eventually by showing people the awesome experience called the presence of god can be turned on an off with a switch attached to an
electrode stimulating the god spot in the brain.

Finding a practical solution to this problem of freeing fundamentalist from their
delusions is becoming more and more crucial. Fundamentalists are becoming ever more
numerous and politically powerful and their delusions vigorously propel prejudice, war
and environmental destruction.

TV Evangelist Gerald Flurry tells his flock that all biblical scholars are under
control of the devil and that one should resolve all questions of scripture without
consulting experts of any kind, considering only the King James version of the bible.
Flurry reminds me of the hick who said of the King James bible, If
it was good enuf fer Jaysus, its good enuf fer me.

Fundamentalists infect others with their delusions using brainwashing techniques.
Perhaps it is time to fight fire with fire.

Revulsion

I personally find Kristians revolting for yet another
reason. Kristians attempt to pelt the creator of the universe with millions of petty
petitions, as if they knew better how to run the universe, as if the creator of the
universe had nothing better to do than listen to their whining and pleading. They never
ask, What can I do to help? They just demand God give them
more that everyone else. They even have the gall to order God to bless America, without
even so much as a please. They are like a squabbling flock of pigeons fighting for
handouts.

If religions were paintings, Kristianity would be smoking dogs on black velvet. If
religions were tableware, Kristianity would be Melmac. If religions were forms of
entertainment, Kristianity would be Elvis impersonation. If religions were styles of home
decoration, Kristianity would be kitsch. If religions were songs, Kristianity would be
Billy Ray Cyrus’s Achy Breaky Heart. If religions were hairstyles, Kristianity
would be Ernest Angley’s toupée. Kristianity is the epitome of tacky insincerity.

Sacrifice

Ever since the neolithic age, mankind has been infected
with the erroneous notion of blood sacrifice. Perhaps someone long ago noticed that seeds
sacrificed to the god of the harvest helped ensure an
abundant crop, or that plants grew more abundantly over a buried dead body. From that
developed the notion of sacrificing a young person each year to ensure a good harvest.
Related to that is the nutty idea of the scapegoat, some animal or person who
symbolically takes on the sins of others and is punished for them. The ancient delusions
of blood sacrifice and scapegoat are central to the Christian religion. Jesus is the
scapegoat and the ultimate blood sacrifice. Unfortunately, Christianity won’t leave
it at that. Christians are always looking for new scapegoats: heretics, atheists, Jews,
gays, witches, Muslims… to project all their own evil onto. The problem is all
this punishing and self-punishing just creates a vicious spiral of reprisal. It is time
to leave such barbaric neolithic notions behind.

Christians are encouraged to imagine they are causing Jesus pain by unloading their
guilt and sin onto him. Even though it is a purely mental processes, it still teaches
sadism, cruelty even to loved ones and shifting the blame to others.

Torture

Strappado is a form of Kristian torture in which the victim’s hands are first tied behind their back and then they are suspended in the air by means of a rope attached to wrists, which most likely dislocates both arms. Weights may be added to the body to intensify the effect and increase the pain.

Strappado is a form of Kristian torture in which the victim’s hands are first tied behind their back and then they are suspended in the air by means of a rope attached to wrists, which most likely dislocates both arms. Weights may be added to the body to intensify the effect and increase the pain.

The Spanish chair is a form of Kristian torture used to hold the victim while they were roasted alive slowly.

The Spanish chair is a form of Kristian torture used to hold the victim while they were roasted alive slowly.

Without warning, you are seized and brought before a Judge. Did you create a
thunderstorm and destroy the village harvest? Did you kill your neighbour with the evil
eye? Do you doubt that Christ is bodily present in the Eucharist? You will soon learn
that questions of this sort admit of no exculpatory reply.

You are not told the names of your accusers. But their identities are of little
account, for even if, at this late hour, they were to recant their charges against you,
they would merely be punished as false witnesses, while their original accusations
would retain their full weight as evidence of your guilt. The machinery of justice has
been so well oiled by faith that it can no longer be influenced.

But you have a choice, of sorts: you can concede your guilt and name your
accomplices. Yes, you must have had accomplices. No confession will be unless other men
and women can be implicated in your crimes. Perhaps, three acquaintances of your
choosing did change into hares and consort with the devil himself. The sight
of iron boots designed to crush your feet seems to refresh your memory. Yes, Friedrich,
Arthur and Otto are sorcerers too their wives? Witches all.

You now face punishment proportionate to the severity of your crimes: flogging, a
pilgrimage on foot to the Holy Land, forfeiture of property, or more likely, a period
of long imprisonment, probably for life. Your accomplices
will soon be rounded up for torture.

Or you can maintain your innocence, which is almost certainly the truth, (after all,
it is the rare person who can create a thunderstorm). In response your jailers will be
happy to lead you to the furthest reaches of human suffering before burning you at the
stake. You may be imprisoned in total darkness for months or years at a time,
repeatedly beaten and starved, or stretched upon the rack. Thumbscrews may be applied,
or toe screws, or a pear-shaped vise may be inserted into your mouth, vagina, or anus,
and forced open until your misery admits of no possible increase. You may be hoisted to
the ceiling on a strappado (with your arms bound behind your
back and attached to a pulley and weights tied to your feet), dislocating your
shoulders. To this torment squassation [jerking up and down]
might be added, which, being often sufficient to cause your death, may yet spare you
the agony of the stake. If you are unlucky enough to be in Spain, where judicial
torture has achieved a transcendent level of cruelty, you may be placed in the
Spanish chair: a throne of iron, complete with iron stocks to
secure your neck and limbs. In the interest of saving your soul, a coal brazier will be
placed beneath your bare feet, slowly roasting them. Because the stain of heresy runs
deep, your flesh will be continually larded with fat to keep it from burning too
quickly. Or you may be bound to a bench, with a cauldron filled with mice placed
upside-down upon your bare abdomen. With the requisite application of heat to the iron,
the mice will begin to burrow into your belly in search of an exit.

Should you, while in extremis, admit to your torturers that you are indeed a
heretic, a sorcerer, or a witch, you will be made to confirm your story before a judge
— and any attempt to recant, to claim that your confession has been coerced
through torture, will deliver you either to your tormentors once again or directly to
the stake. If, once condemned, you repent of your sins, these compassionate and learned
men — whose concern for the fate of your eternal soul really knows no bounds
— will do you the kindness of strangling you before lighting your
pyre.

You might say that Kristianity is no longer guilty of torture, yet it was only
168 years
ago when the last Inquisition was held. However, that is its natural behaviour. That is
what it does when it gains control. Atheists keep it in check to a certain degree today.
However, they are not completely successful. Modern Kristians still enjoy tormenting gay
people and feeling virtuous about it, sometimes just death threats and beatings but
often literal torture and murder. Further, American Kristian soldiers routinely torture
their Muslim detainees in Afghanistan and Iraq. All you have to do is remove the legal
penalty and Kristians instantly start torturing their traditional scapegoats again.
Kristians are using every dishonest tactic to regain the control they had in the middle
ages, when they could force their filthy, sadistic beliefs on everyone. They need to be
stopped.

Source

You might wonder why humans are so susceptible to believing in
Christianity and other religions — believing things that are obviously untrue. The
Darwinian reason is children believe whatever their parents tell them without question.
Children who fail to do that tend to succumb at an early age to misadventure. Knowledge,
both true and false, gets passed on from generation to generation with equal solemnity.
When you study the religious beliefs of some exotic culture they appear utterly
outlandish.

Consider being an anthropologist who studied a tribe that solemnly told you that:

In the time of the ancestors, a man was born to a virgin mother with no
biological father being involved.

The same fatherless man called out to a friend called Lazarus, who had been dead
long enough to stink and Lazarus promptly came back to life.

The fatherless man himself came alive after being dead and buried three
days.

Forty days later the fatherless man went up to the top of a hill then disappeared
bodily into the sky.

If you murmur thoughts privately in your head, the fatherless man and his
'father' (who is also himself) will hear your thoughts and may act upon them.
He is simultaneously able to hear the thoughts of everybody in the world.

If you do something bad, or something good, the same fatherless man sees all,
even if nobody else does. You may be rewarded or punished accordingly, including
after your death.

The fatherless man’s mother never died but 'ascended' bodily into
heaven.

Bread and wine, if blessed by a priest (who must have testicles) 'become'
the body and blood of the fatherless man. [Cannibalism of this bloody mess is a Good
Thing™].

What would an objective anthropologist, coming fresh to this set of beliefs while
on fieldwork in Cambridge [England], make of them?
~ Dr. Richard Dawkins(1941-03-26 age:77),
The God Delusion page 179

My Least Favourite Christians

Peter Popoff: still conning
even after getting caught red handed using stage magic.

Benny Hinn:
a local boy. Sucks more money out of the rubes than anyone else with his phony faith
healing. A Canadian who pretends to be an American Republican.

Ralph Reed

Ralph Reed

Ralph Reed: smarmy executive
director of the Christian Coalition who was ruined by the Jack Abramoff bribery
scandal. This guy was not only into personal corruption and greed, he conned millions
well-meaning people into donating in the name of Jesus to candidates who promote war,
poverty, pollution, global warming and bigotry not to mention abandoning those with
AIDS in Africa.

Dr. Karl Coke is the most
deceitful Christian on TV. He masquerades as a scientist then tells lie after lie
about science. He claims for example that hypothesis is just another word
for faith and that the trust science has in its theories is just as baseless,
arbitrary and fully equivalent to the faith Christian have in their dogma. He babbles
on about dark matter when in actuality he has only a child’s understanding,
imagining it is some sort of heavenly tithe.

Mike Huckabee, fundamentalist
preacher and Republican presidential candidate who has an understanding of science
that would shame a second grader.

Judah Smith

Judah Smith

Judah Smith: preys on children, teens and
the college age. This makes him more harmful than those who prey on the already
indoctrinated. He is fairly young himself. He has the cadences of the hypnotic
inductions down pat.

Mark Burns:
(1979-09-21 age:38)
a grossly fat black man who pimps for Donald Trump. He avoids all questions. He will not give anyone else a chance to talk.
He is a compulsive liar. His eyes are unusually far apart, presumably caused by fetal alcohol syndrome.

Jack &
Rexela Van Impe: the and bats will fly out your ass
end of times folks. He looks at the day’s headlines then finds some torturous
explanation of how the bible predicted them. He never predicts tomorrow’s
headlines of course; it is always after-the-fact justifications. This goofus could
find proof of a Kennedy assassination plot in Dr. Seuss.

James Robison

James Robison

James
Robison: folksy image, feigns ignorance to suck others into foolishness. He shows
the same tape of a children in Africa over and over to milk people of compassion of
their dollars. If he were actually doing something, surely there would be more than
one tape and he might have at least one tape of the contributed dollars at work.

Fred Phelps, homophobic Christian

Fred Phelps, homophobic Christian

Fred Phelps:
paranoid about homosexuals, more deranged than evil. He has such a bee in his bonnet,
he is probably fighting some very improper urges personally.

Ernest
Angley: performer of phony merkles for money. When
Robin Williams does his preacher shtick, he is aping Angley.

The endless list of Republican criminals who hide behind the cloak of Christian
respectability and so called family values — code for
anti-gay bigotry. Try googling Republican preacher
and all you find are paedophiles and convicted criminals.

Kenneth Copeland

Kenneth Copeland

Kenneth Copeland: he pretends to
be retarded, feigning excitement over the mundane, using dramatic pauses and
shouting even to ask someone to pass the salt. He makes William Shatner look
restrained. His saving grace is he often has guests who give sound advice on
preserving good health.

Ted & Tammy
Faye Bakkker (thankfully dead) Tammy Faye Bakker was also known as Tammy Messner.
I saw her on TV looking like a zombie and thought it was a SNL (Saturday Night Live)
satire. But it was the effects
of cancer. Apparently God does not like people collecting
money for God then spending it on themselves.

Why does Jim Bakker spell his name with two k’s? Because three would be too
obvious.
~ Bill Maher(1956-01-20 age:62)

She was so stupid she truly believed that God wanted her to buy clothes
and shoes with all the donations. God as cosmic sugar daddy.

Peter
Youngren, sells his crap by shouting it loudly over and over. He also likes to
preposterously extend random words. He has a slight Dutch accent.

Pope
Ratzinger. Before he was pope Benedict XVI, he was head of the Inquisition (now
called the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith).

Billy
Graham: the con man’s con man. He projected rock-like integrity as he
skimmed millions of dollars from the gullible.

Joel Osteen.
Here is a guy in it purely for the money. He says whatever the people want to hear.
He does not have an ideological axe to grind.

George Wilmott of the Fort Worth Bible Students had the lowest
IQ (Intelligence Quotient)
of any Kristian on TV. He is too stupid to be a con man. He is the guy with the
gigantic ears who sounds retarded.
George Wilmott

Why Me?

Even after reading my essays and posts, Christians will blink
stupidly and ask me But what are you attacking us. We didn’t
do anything to you. So one more time, here is my beef with the Christians:

If Christians just kept to themselves, like Muslims, or Buddhists, I would be happy to
leave them alone. But they are constantly trying to impose their superstitions on others
including me. These include:

beliefs in the necessity of tormenting homosexuals and denying them civil rights. I
am gay. My teen years were a nightmare. Even though I was raised atheist, I was
surrounded by Christians. I was in the closet and felt that people would never talk to
me again if they ever found out I was gay even though I was a virgin. Later, after I
came out publicly, I received over 300,000 abusive phone
calls from Christians and over 3,000 death threats. Buddhist
and atheists don’t do that. Then there are the American Christians who believe
their god gave them the right to take and kill in any way they please.

beliefs about the need to punish or even kill people who have abortions, even
aborting a single cell that has not yet implanted on the uterus.

wanting to teach false science about the origin of the earth and living species in
schools.

wanting to force others to pray to their gods (they have at least four: Father,
Son, Holy Spirit, Mary) and to show them respect. Recall early Christians chose to be
eaten by lions rather than bow to false gods. Yet they won’t give others the
right to reject their gods as false.

wanting to force terminally ill people in extreme pain to endure every last moment
of agony to please Yahweh, the god of eternal torment.

interfering in birth control and STD (Sexually Transmitted Disease)
prevention.

blood lust. Wanting to take the country to war to kill people of rival
religions.

promoting racism. Churches are still segregated.

preying on the gullible and elderly to swindle them out of their life savings with
phony faith healings and promises of financial increase.

Being so self righteous and acting as if their superstitious beliefs made them
superior. It is galling the way they feel so smug about their aggressive
ignorance.

President George Bush, a victim of religion mania, claimed he started both the war
in Afghanistan and in Iraq because voices in his head he took to be God, ordered him to. He millennialist rapture
views may well lead him to start a nuclear war with the intent of forcing Jesus to
pay a premature visit to earth.

Opposing attempts to clean up the environment or handle global warming on the
grounds Jesus is coming soon and he will clean it up.

Good News

Evangelicals report that only 4% of today’s teenagers in the USA will be practising Christians as
adults. Christianity is waning. The only religion growing is Islam, not because of
conversion, but purely by differential birth rate. Muslims are not managing to convert
anyone by the sword. The fastest growing group are the non-believers, the atheists and
agnostics.

America and Europe both have the same Christian roots, however, America is much more
religious than Europe. Yet America has more crime, more abortion, more drug use, more
murder, more teenage pregnancy, etc. than Europe. So it appears religion is not necessary
to preserve family values. It appears religion might even interfere with them.

Strategy

I hope I have convinced you of the necessity of eradicating Kristianity, but how would
you go about it?

Professor Dawkins has often pointed out how much he disapproves of the term
Muslim child as if the child had no right to choose their
religious beliefs.

I would like to take that idea further. I think we should lobby to have indoctrinating
children into religious beliefs made illegal because it is a form of child abuse.
Parents threaten and terrorise their children to force them to accept arrant
nonsense.

You might think this idea is ridiculous, even if in your heart you agree. Surely it
has zero chance of being accepted.

I would like to tell you of my personal experience with gay lib in 1969. As far as I knew there were no other people on the planet who agreed
with me. Everyone I had encountered, including gays, were strongly opposed to my belief
in gay equality. So I knew my protest was utterly futile. I remember thinking my odds
were not all that much better than all the windows in the office building across the
street bursting out because random Brownian motion of air molecules had incidentally
aligned in one direction. However, it bothered me that everyone’s attitudes were so
irrational and damned if I were going to pretend otherwise. Within three years we had the
first gay civil rights legislation in BC Canada. No one was more surprised than me.

We might do it in stages: first give the right for a child to protest and get a desist
order, next block violence even to compliant children, next block threats and finally
forbid pushing any religion with haranguing.

It is like eradicating malaria. If you can break the chain at any stage of the life
cycle, you can drive it extinct. I think many people think of Kristianity as like some
enormous centuries old oak tree guarding an ancient Bishop’s palace. It is more
like a tree where termites have eaten all the wood inside it. All that is left is an
empty shell that could come crashing down the first time it is stressed.

Summary

Have a look at the clips from The God Who Wasn’t There. It will remind you just how
flaming nuts and violent Kristianity makes people. Some of them are just as intent on
executing all the gays as Hitler was about exterminating all the Jews.

The movie will also remind you how Kristians have no respect for reason. Reason is a
dirty word to Kristians.

I wonder how much worse Kristians would have been if they did not even pretend to
worship Jesus.

If only a few people were infected with Kristianity, we would treat it as a mental
disorder. Kristians are completely delusional and far more dangerous than your run of the
mill fruitcake. Everyone is too afraid to tackle them because they are so numerous,
insane and vicious.

This movie debunks Christianity by showing how all parts of the Jesus legend were borrowed from earlier religions and that even the church fathers admitted that. It also shows how early Christian writers were not talking about a literal historical person. Finally it shows how the Bible is at odds in many crucial places with established history.

Links

The good news is it is becoming harder and harder
to keep people in the dark. Anyone with the tiniest interest can now surf the Internet to
hear the beliefs their parents fed them challenged. They can engage in planetary wide
debate in the newsgroups such as alt.religion. They can hear about other religions and
begin to realise not everyone agrees the sun rises and sets in their
religion’s founder’s armpit.

Why does every intelligent Christian disobey Jesus?
Points out that nobody obeys Jesus’ commandments. The bible says everyone is condemned to hell. Why do they ignore him? Because he is flipping nuts and they know requests are crazy.
They are afraid of other Christians, not hell.

The Jesus Puzzle:
evidence keeps piling up there was no historic Jesus. He is a work of fiction, like
Superman or Arnold Saba’s comic book character Moralman.

Jesus Never Existed: explores
the evidence for the existence of the historical existence of Jesus. If Jesus never
existed then all the rest said about was fiction too. There is companion book for the
website.

Christianity was the ultimate product of religious syncretism in the ancient
world. Its emergence owed nothing to a holy carpenter. There were many Jesuses but
the fable was a cultural construct. Nazareth did not exist in the 1st century AD
– the area was a burial ground of rock-cut tombs. Following a star would lead
you in circles. The 12 disciples are as fictitious as their master, invented to
legitimise the claims of the early churches. The original Mary was not a virgin. That
idea was borrowed from pagan goddesses. Scholars have known all this for more than
200 years but priestcraft is a highly profitable business
and finances an industry of deceit to keep the show on the road. Jesus better documented than any other ancient figure? Don’t
believe a word of it. Unlike the mythical Jesus, a real historical figure like Julius
Caesar has a mass of mutually supporting evidence.

Liars for Jesus: the religious
right’s alternate version of American history.

20
Reasons to Abandon Christianity: a bit too much emphasis on the sins of
Christianity throughout history, many of which have already been dropped, but when
you study where it came from, its behaviour today is more understandable.

Judgement Day:
Intelligent Design on Trial: a court case where intelligent design proponents on
the local school board in Dover Pennsylvania tried to introduce religious creationism
into the curriculum in the name of science. You will learn many of the dishonest
ploys the creationists use to subvert the constitution. They even go so far as to
commit perjury. Watch the slimy misrepresentations of evolution by creationist lawyer
Phillip E. Johnson and the bogus irreducible complexity arguments from Michael Behe.
Watch them try to tart up biblical creationism as a legitimate scientific theory by
renaming it intelligent design.

Darwin portrayed humans not as moral and spiritual beings, but as animals leading
people to abandon objective moral standards.
~ The Wedge
Document

They admit intelligent design is not about science, but about getting
people to accept the moral authority of the Christian religion. Intelligent design is
the thin end of the wedge to replace science with Christian superstition. View
onscreen or read the transcript.

Rings

Imagine

Imagine there’s no Heaven
It’s easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today

Imagine there’s no countries
It isn’t hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace

You may say that I'm a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one

Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world

You may say that I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join us
And the world will live as one

~ John Lennon(1940-10-091980-12-08 age:40)

When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer
from a delusion it is called religion.
~ Robert M. Pirsig(1928-09-06 age:89)
author of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When
you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I
dismiss yours.
~ Stephen F. Roberts(1967 age:50)

I apologise for the repetition, the bombast, the appeals to emotion and
selfishness and the verbosity in this essay. However, it was intentional. That is how
Kristianity was pounded into the brains of those I want to reach, so I figure I need to
use the same means to cleanse it out.